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“Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.”
“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
“Autos for years seemed to give us freedom and independence, but when they create traffic jams and other problems in the parks, the experience of serenity in nature that visitors expect is seriously...”
“Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in ...”
“I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragilit...”
“When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.”
“In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is ...”
“Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going t...”
“There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufac...”
“Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, whic...”
“I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving ...”
“Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle...”
“I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.”
“Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.”
“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.”
“Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.”
“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.”
“My dream is to save women from nature.”
“Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.”
“According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for ex...”
