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Quote by Thornton Wilder
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most te

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. – Thornton Wilder

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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. – Thornton Wilder

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Future
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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. – Thornton Wilder

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pet
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Nature is not benevolent: with ruthless indifference she makes all things serve their purposes… – Laozi, as quoted in The Wisdom of the East: The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ, transla

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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. – Tony Campolo

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Nature

Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. – Andrew Bernstein

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Nature

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Natures mandates. – Marquis de Sade

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Nature

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I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way. – Lyndsy Fonseca

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Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Dont call us, well call you. – Marlene Dietrich

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Funny is an attitude. – Flip Wilson

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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. – Blaise Pascal

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