It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. -
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. -
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. -
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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