203.Quotes On Men:Nature:Modern-Part 3

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.." -William B. Yeats-

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"All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-

"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.".-Yoshida Kenko-

"Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.".-Ambrose Bierce

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"The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.".-C. Wright Mills-

"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. Lucan-

"You are born modern, you do not become so.".-Jean Baudrillard-

"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.".-Oscar Wilde-

"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point;only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.".-Vaclav Havel-

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"As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities;so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.".-Akhenaton-

"What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!".-Alexander Herzen-

"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.".-Anatole France-

"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.".-Arnold Toynbee-

"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.".-Blaise Pascal-

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"Beauty is our weapon against nature;by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.".-Camille Paglia-

"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-

"What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.".-Daniel J. Boorstin-

"In charity there is no excess.".-Francis Bacon-

"Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.".-Francis Picabia-

"''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-

"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.".-Henry David Thoreau-

"Art is the child of Nature;yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-

"Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.".-Jean Baudrillard-

"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.".-Leon Trotsky-

"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.".-Mark Twain-

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"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.".-Northrop Frye-

"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.".-Phyllis Schlafly-

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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"The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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