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The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.