#nature

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

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The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#content #denying #endowed #him #nature

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#ago #disappeared #had #hands #happened

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. ↗

— Evan Esar

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We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

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It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#amongst #audience #choose #i #internationalist

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. ↗

— William Falconer

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