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People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.


Russel Honore

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LAVETTA SUE WEGMAN What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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THEODORE H. WHITE That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
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BARUCH SPINOZA Man by nature is a selfish being because, he has been imbued by nature to think of self alone.
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JOHN CARMACK Marital relationship is the number one in built need nature has deposited inside of man.
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MAURICE SPEES If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
LEO TOLSTOY To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Satisfying the NEED T...
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APURVA GAGLANI Dear Lady be cautious of Cupid, List well to the lines of this verse, To be kissed by a fool is stup...
AMBROSE REDMOON To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
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Pillage, then burn.

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HONORE DE BALZAC Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZAC There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZAC Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life ...
HONORE DE BALZAC It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZAC Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
HONORE DE BALZAC Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love...
HONORE DE BALZAC Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
HONORE DE BALZAC True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demons...
HONORE DE BALZAC A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC Finance, like time, devours its own children.
HONORE DE BALZAC First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZAC Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
HONORE DE BALZAC The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
HONORE DE BALZAC Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its...
HONORE DE BALZAC Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
HONORE DE BALZAC A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in ...
HONORE DE BALZAC The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they ...
HONORE DE BALZAC No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportio...
HONORE DE BALZAC A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. N...
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