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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. ↗

— Ben Stein

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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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The imagination is man's power over nature. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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