#natur

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#cause #changes #come #external #follows

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#fantasy #how #i #much #nature

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting. ↗

— John Foster

#elements #interesting #just #make #more

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #break #challenger #change #close

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. ↗

— Anatole France

#act #fashion #human #human nature #nature

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#back #cheque #his #likes #most

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. ↗

— Anne Frank

#alone #because #best #does #feel

In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres. ↗

— Hans Frank

#became #cooperate #development #economic #frame

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you. ↗

— Al Franken

#nature #power #splendor #then #you