#nature

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#because #came #civilization #common #common sense

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#doing #double #every #human #human nature

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#dad #more #much #nature #political

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#away #before #death #decay #dies

The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#age

That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources. ↗

— Clea Koff

#woman #nature

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#commodities #increased #inventions #labour #man

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#essential #human #human nature #knowledge #nature

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#always #flowers #see #them #those

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#back #brought #conventionality #elements #fabric