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"For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves."	Sir Francis Bacon
"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."	Sir Francis Bacon
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."	Walter Bagehot
"Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art."	Philip James Bailey
"What is art? Nature concentrated."	Honoré de Balzac
"Nature does not give to those who will not spend."	R. J. Baughan
"The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too."	Luther Bear
"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."	Henry Ward Beecher
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."	Ingrid Bergman
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."	Smiley Blanton
"Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable."	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."	Alan Bleasdale
"Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most."	Robert Albert Bloch
"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."	Joan Borysenko
"Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding."	Jacob Brownowski
"Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives."	Mary Ann Brussat
"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."	Edmund Burke
"Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change."	Robert Burns
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Emily Dickinson	Evan Esar	Galileo Galilei
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Juvenal	Kahlil Gibran	Lao-Tzu
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Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marie Curie
Mark McGee	Martin Luther	Mary Ann Brussat
Miguel de Cervantes	Napolean Hill	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
Omar Khayyám	Paul Jones	Peggy Noonan
Philip James Bailey	Philip Jose Farmer	Phillip Lubin
Phyllis McGinley	Pierre Charron	Pietro Aretino
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard Dawkins	Robert Albert Bloch
Robert Burns	Robert Green Ingersoll	R. J. Baughan
Sir Francis Bacon	Smiley Blanton	Stephen Jay Gould
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Henry Huxley	Waldo Frank
Walt Whitman	Walter Bagehot	William Blake
William Hazlitt	William James	William Ellery Channing
William Henry Harrison	William Ralph Inge	William Sherman Pene du Bois
Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller