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Nature is full of teeth
that come in one by one, then
decay,
fall out.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Wall.")
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The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
(Aristotle (384-323 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics 1.2; 1253a2-3, The Complete Works of Aristotle, trans. by Jowett, ed. Jonathan Barnes, Princeton, Princeton University Press (1985).)
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Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
(Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), Dutch historian. In the Shadow of Tomorrow, ch. 4 (1936).)
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Elsa Bannister: The Chinese say "It is difficult for love to last long; therefore one who loves passionately is cured of love, in the end."
Michael O'Hara: That's a hard way of thinking.
Elsa: There's more to the proverb: "Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end."
(Orson Welles (1915-1985), U.S. filmmaker, actor, producer, and Based On The Novel Be. Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles), The Lady from Shanghai (1948).)
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Elsa Bannister: The Chinese say "It is difficult for love to last long; therefore one who loves passionately is cured of love, in the end."
Michael O'Hara: That's a hard way of thinking.
Elsa: There's more to the proverb: "Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end."
(Orson Welles (1915-1985), U.S. filmmaker, actor, producer, and Based On The Novel Be. Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles), The Lady from Shanghai (1948).)
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Fortnightly Review (London, February 1891, repr. 1895).)
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All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
(Graham Swift (b. 1949), British novelist, short-story writer. Shuttlecock, ch. 11 (1981).)
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Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings,
(William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), U.S. poet. Thanatopsis (l. 14-15). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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