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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be

Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves. – Jonathan Swift

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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. – Garrison Keillor

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Nature is new every morning, but its cycles are ancient, independent of all our anxieties, oblivious to our plans. – Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, “Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer,” 2003 September 25th

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin

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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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