"The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family."

Johnson, Paul on family
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"There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents."

Yankwich, Leon R. on parents and parenting   

"Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth."

Ustinov, Peter on parents and parenting   

"My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest."

Twain, Mark on parents and parenting   

"The imagination is man's power over nature."

Stevens, Wallace on imagination   

"Men argue, nature acts."

Voltaire on argument
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"Nature does nothing uselessly."

Aristotle on nature
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"Nature is commanded by obeying her."

Bacon, Francis on nature   

"Nature is the art of God."

Dante Alighieri on nature
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"All nature wears one universal grin."

Fielding, Henry on nature
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"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God."

Havhamess, Alan on nature   

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

Wordsworth, William on nature
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"Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]"

Shakespeare, William on necessity
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"Man is by nature a political animal."

Aristotle on humankind
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"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."

Sade, Marquis De on destructiveness
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"Self-defense is Nature's eldest law."

Dryden, John on defense
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"Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art."

Bailey, Philip James on nature
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"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on pity
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"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on science
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"It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong."

France, Anatole on morality   

"There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again."

Paglia, Camille on nuclear age   

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

Blake, William on nature
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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."

Wilde, Oscar on nature
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"The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on nature   

"The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is."

Stein, Gertrude on reality   

"Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience."

Boese, Paul on patience
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"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

Hare, David on poetry and poets
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"The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture."

Freud, Sigmund on anger
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"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

Freud, Sigmund on morality
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"No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life."

Freud, Sigmund on babies
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"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."

Freud, Sigmund on secrets
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"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."

Freud, Sigmund on self-esteem
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"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?"

Freud, Sigmund on women
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"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."

Freud, Sigmund on children
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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."

Freud, Sigmund on america
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"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

Freud, Sigmund on america
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

Freud, Sigmund on fathers
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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