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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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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. – William Howard Taft

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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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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. – e.e. cummings

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. – Nelson Rockefeller

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