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“Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.”
“I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But someth...”
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery ...”
“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
“No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transf...”
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”
“Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.”
“I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.”
“A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.”
“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”
“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
“The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on ...”
“A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered.”
“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.”
“Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of thi...”
“I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister - growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in comm...”
“It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can f...”
“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”
