Quote by Alexander Hamilton
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. – Alexander Hamilton

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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. – Alexander Hamilton

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Men
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. – Alexander Hamilton

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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. – Henry David Thoreau

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The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. – Rupert Sheldrake

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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. – Arthur C. Clarke

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

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and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. – Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. – Marilyn vos Savant

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In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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