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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#come #control #exclude #generations #human

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. ↗

— George Savile

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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#comprehend #concepts #desired #elementary #few

Sound is the vocabulary of nature. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown. ↗

— Brooke Shields

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