#natur

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#caps #demand #devastating #disaster #disasters

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#choice #expresses #fact #forces #homosexuality

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#entire #importance #least #movement #nature

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#being #everything #good #his #lost

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#consists #death #motion #nature #our

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#experience #instinct #men #nature #things

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#am #destroys #first #habit #i

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#natural #nature #our #principles

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#man #most #nature #reed #thing

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #false #love #mind #must