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The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. ↗

— Kedar Joshi

#history #nature #science #nature

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological. ↗

— Charles Bernheimer

#decadent #emile-zola #feminine #joris-kerl-huysmans #nature

Sublime natures are seldom clean! ↗

— Longinus

#decreation #philosophy #nature

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#realism #nature

I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done ↗

— Paul H. Nitze

#inspirational

When we dedicate our talent to serving a neighbor, it is possibly one of the highest forms of worship; something sacred transpires when we sacrifice our time and dedicate our God-given loves and talents to one another. ↗

— Matt Litton

#love #talent #worship #inspirational

Ish #28 "Give you child a name with meaning. ↗

— Regina Griffin

#inspirig #motivation #motivational-quotes #inspirational

But I will confess 
that I began as an astronomer—a liking
for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things,
a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit—
and that my longing for you has not taken me
very far from that original desire
to inscribe a comet’s orbit around the walls
of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars. ↗

— Troy Jollimore

#inspirational #self #stars #the-origin-of-things #inspirational

A blank page and time ignite infinite possibilities in a mind unyielding to boundaries. ↗

— Adrienne Dionne

#inspirational

Seize today with the hope of tomorrow and yesterday's wisdom. ↗

— A.J. Arias

#inspirational