#nature

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. ↗

— Harlan Stone

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A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#arisen #could #dramatists #english #essence

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. ↗

— David Gerrold

#does #immune #laws #mean #operations

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. ↗

— Paul Getty

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. ↗