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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#come #control #exclude #generations #human

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#blood #conversely #downfall #great #heroes

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man. ↗

— Bruno Rossi

#discovery #experiment #far #feeling #goes

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#happiness #nature #nature

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living? ↗

— James Rouse

#capacity #free #knowledge #lived #living

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#cannot #great #however #learned #man

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#comfortable #divided #i #i think #into

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#bad #disaster #every #facing #good

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#attack #disaster #entire #equipped #government

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#fight #groups #images #make #natural