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Quote by Calvin Coolidge
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge

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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. – Calvin Coolidge

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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. – Calvin Coolidge

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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. – Calvin Coolidge

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. – Steven Pinker

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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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Nature

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. – Edward Steichen

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I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. – William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. – Michel de Montaigne

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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved. – Lafcadio Hearn

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I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. – Pope Gregory VII

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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. – Samuel Johnson

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