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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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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. – Thornton Wilder

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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton Wilder

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great
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But there comes a moment in everybodys life when he must decide whether hell live among the human beings or not – a fool among fools or a fool alone. – Thornton Wilder

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Theres an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that arent as important as we make them sometimes. – Marguerite Moreau

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Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. – Gwyn Thomas

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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. – Henri Poincare

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Nature

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And its not so much divine retribution as its built into the law of nature. – Pat Robertson

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Its better for me to play with guys because Rock n Roll has such an aggressive attitude. – Lita Ford

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. – Joseph Addison

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Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They dont always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings. – Harold Brodkey

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I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball. – Nick Offerman

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