#nature

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#constant #inconstancy #nature #scene #were

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. ↗

— William Cowper

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I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#being #business #had #hate #how

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful. ↗

— Pierre Curie

#deeply #harmful #here #into #knowledge

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#mimicking #nature #poet

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion. ↗

— Robert J. McCracken

#human-nature #money #money

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. ↗

— John Dewey

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