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Quote by Clarence Day
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. – Clarence Day

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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day

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You cant sweep other people off their feet, if you cant be swept off your own. – Clarence Day

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. – Miriam Makeba

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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. – Carl Sandburg

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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