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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envio

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. – Arthur Keith

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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. – Arthur Keith

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Science
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In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended. – Arthur Keith

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Peace
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Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. – Arthur Keith

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Imagination
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. – Xun Zi

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Nature

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

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Nature

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. – C. Northcote Parkinson

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Nature

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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president. – Karen Hughes

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The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldnt want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger. – Drew Barrymore

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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection. – Luther Burbank

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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. – Edmund Burke

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