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Quote by James Whistler
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. – James Whistler

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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer. – John Keats

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But Im a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, Im going to make something out of it. – Maynard James Keenan

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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. – Henry Rollins

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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. – Orison Swett Marden

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To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. – Adlai Stevenson

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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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