„The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.“
— Jim Henson American puppeteer 1936 - 1990
„One had been dismissed — and subsequently executed — for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and the third died in his bunk of natural causes — for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.“
— Сальваторе, Роберт, книга Homeland
Homeland (1990) [Wizards of the Coast, 2005, ISBN 0-786-93953-2], p. 157
Drizzt Do'Urden about his "friends" from Melee-Magthere
Сальваторе, Роберт
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„Life ends with the previous thought
It is resurrected with the subsequent One“
— Frederick Franck Dutch painter 1909 - 2006
Источник: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 143
„With his fantastic mane of multicoloured hair, Phury should have been in Hollywood's league with the ladies, but he'd stuck with his vow of celibacy. There was room for one and only one love in his life, and it had been slowly killing him for years.“
— Jessica Bird, книга Dark Lover
Источник: Dark Lover
„Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen —; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.“
— Edgar Allan Poe, книга The Murders in the Rue Morgue
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).
„The Negro voter … had, then, but one clear economic ideal and that was his demand for land, his demand that the great plantations be subdivided and given to him as his right. This was a perfectly fair and natural demand and ought to have been an integral part of Emancipation. To emancipate four million laborers whose labor had been owned, and separate them from the land upon which they had worked for nearly two and a half centuries, was an operation such as no modern country had for a moment attempted or contemplated. The German and English and French serf, the Italian and Russian serf, were, on emancipation, given definite rights in the land. Only the American Negro slave was emancipated without such rights and in the end this spelled for him the continuation of slavery.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois, книга Black Reconstruction
Источник: Black Reconstruction in America (1935), p. 611
„If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture“
— Oscar Wilde, книга The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
Контексте: If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
„When one must fight, one had better do it without hesitation, according to his own nature.“
— Fausto Cercignani Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
„History is not the arena in which natural scientists look for the truth; quite the contrary, they believe it cannot be found there but rather in the laboratory. From their point of view history will at best yield up stale truths that have been superseded.“
— Kurt Danziger German academic 1926
Источник: "Does the history of psychology have a future?." 1994, p. 469
„Negro rule under unscrupulous adventurers had been finally put an end to in the South, and the natural, inevitable ascendancy of the whites, the responsible class, established.“
— Woodrow Wilson American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921) 1856 - 1924
Division and Reunion, 1829-1889 Longmans, Green, & Company (1893) p. 273
1890s
„Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.“
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
Источник: Pygmalion & My Fair Lady
„Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.“
— James Jeans British mathematician and astronomer 1877 - 1946
Physics and Philosophy (1942)
„Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.“
— Nick Bostrom Swedish philosopher 1973
In Defence of Posthuman Dignity http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/dignity.html, Bioethics, Vol. 19, Iss. 3 (2005), p. 211
„The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.“
— Scott Ritter American weapons inspector and writer 1961
The Christian Science Monitor, 28 January 2002
2000
„All our life is in three: in the first we have our Being, in the second we have our Increasing, and in the third we have our Fulfilling: the first is Nature, the second is Mercy, and the third is Grace.“
— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416
Summations, Chapter 58
„I understood three manners of beholding of Motherhood in God: the first is grounded in our Nature’s making; the second is taking of our nature, — and there beginneth the Motherhood of Grace; the third is Motherhood of working, — and therein is a forthspreading by the same Grace, of length and breadth and height and of deepness without end. And all is one Love.“
— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416
Summations, Chapter 59
„Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. Of those three components only one, the medium, is material.“
— Hans Hofmann American artist 1880 - 1966
As quoted in Hans Hofmann (1963) by William Chapin Seitz, p. 15
1960s
„[There has been] a widening of the field covered by the concept of “information”, both its theory and its practice. Information transfer has been put on a par with the transfer of matter and energy, as one of the primary natural processes.’“
— Brian Campbell Vickery British information theorist 1918 - 2009
Источник: Fifty years of information progress (1994), p. 7: Introduction.
„As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Friday