A Quotes
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“A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.”
“A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to words to sentences to paragraphs. The whole of one level becomes part of the whole of the next. In other words, natural hierarchies are composed of holons.”
Source: A Brief History of Everything
“A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.”
“A Natural Legacy Of Wellness”
“A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.”
Source: The works ...
“A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.”
“A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.”
Source: Letters and Addresses,
“A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. He is satisfied with simple food; it is nutritious, tastes good, and is useful daily medicine. Food and the human spirit are united.”
Source: Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
“A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. He is satisfied with simple food; it is nutritious, tastes good, and is useful daily medicine. Food and the human spirit are united.
Modern people have lost their clear instinct and consequently have become unable to gather and enjoy the seven herbs of spring. They go out seeking a variety of flavors. Their diet becomes disordered, the gaps between likes and dislikes widens, and their instinct becomes more and more bewildered. At this point people begin to apply strong seasonings to their food and to use elaborate cooking techniques, further deepening the confusion. Food and the human spirit have become estranged.”
Source: The One-Straw Revolution
“A natural, polite smile deceives no one.”
“A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.”
“A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person's natural rights.”
“A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”
“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.”
Source: Selected Works
“A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.”
“A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.”
Source: Weegee: An Autobiography
“A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one , two , and three , may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes.”
Source: Leviathan
“A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.”
Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal
“A natureza dotou-nos com alguma medida de insanidade para lidar com as realidades da vida diária”
“A natureza enche chouriços, não há espaços vazios nas suas tripas. (...) Há muita incompetência na forma como a natureza preenche os espaços, falta-lhe capacidade para se alojar nos espaços metafísicos.”
Source: Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja
“A natureza humana", continuei, "tem os seus limites: pode suportar a alegria, o sofrimento, a dor até certo ponto; arruína-se, porém, mal ele seja ultrapassado. Assim, a questão não é ser-se fraco ou forte, mas conseguir suportar a medida do seu sofrimento, seja moral ou físico. E acho tão estranho chamar covarde a quem põe fim à própria vida como a quem morre de febre maligna.”
Source: Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther
“A natureza intercontinental da monarquia gerava um dilema e impunha, como remédio, a ambiguidade. Em Lisboa, o Governo sujeitou-se ao «plano continental» do imperador, para evitar uma invasão francesa na Europa, ao mesmo tempo que procurava, secretamente, a compreensão da Inglaterra, a fim de prevenir algum ataque inglês ao Brasil. Conseguiu assim irritar ambas as potências. No Outono de 1807, os ingleses enviaram a Lisboa uma esquadra, e os franceses, através de Espanha, sua aliada, um exército.”
Source: História de Portugal
“A natureza observadora e emocionalmente determinada do espírito lunar é designada em alemão pelas palavras pertencentes à raiz Sinn, que significa meditar, ter em mente, ponderar, considerar e ser contemplativo; e também contemplação, inclinação mental, assim, como sentidos e sensual; por último, mas não menos importante, o Eigen-Sinn (vontade própria, obstinação) que os homens em geral atribuem às mulheres. A consciência matriarcal age através da circum-ambulação e da meditação. Falta-lhe o propósito do pensamento dirigido, da conclusão lógica e do juízo. Sua Ação característica é um movimento em torno de um círculo, uma contemplação (Betrachtung, uma vez interpretada por Jung como trachtigmachen, engravidar) . Não tem o objetivo direto da consciência masculina, nem o fio aguçado de sua análise. Interessa-se mais pelo significativo do que por fatos e datas, e é orientada teleologicamente mais ao crescimento orgânico do que à causalidade mecânica ou lógica.
Uma vez que o processo de cognição nessa “consciência lunar“ é uma gravidez e seu produto um nascimento, um processo em que toda a personalidade participa, seu “conhecimento “não pode ser partilhado, relatado ou provado. É uma posse interior, realizada e assimilada pela personalidade, mas não facilmente discutida, porque a experiência interna que está por trás dela não se presta a uma exploração verbal adequada, e dificilmente pode ser transmitida a alguém que não tenha passado pela mesma experiência.
Por essa razão, uma consciência masculina pura e simples considera o “conhecimento” da consciência matriarcal não verificável, caprichoso e místico por excelência. Esse é, de fato, no sentido positivo, o cerne da questão. É a mesma espécie de conhecimento revelado nos mistérios e no misticismo. Consiste não de verdades partilhadas mas de transformações experimentadas, portanto necessariamente só tem validade para as pessoas que passaram pela mesma experiência. Para estas, o conselho de Goethe ainda vale:
Sagt es niemand, nur den Weisen, Weil die Menge gleich verhohnet
(Não conte a ninguém, apenas aos sábios, porque a multidão não tarda em zombar)
Isto quer dizer que as percepções de consciência matriarcal são condicionadas pela personalidade que as realiza. Não são abstratas nem desemocionalizadas, pois a consciência matriarcal conserva o vínculo com o reino do inconsciente do qual seu conhecimento brota. Suas descobertas interiores, estão, em conseqüência, em oposição direta às da consciência masculina, que consiste idealmente de conteúdos conscientes abstratos, livres de emocionalismo e possuidores de uma validade universal não afetada por fatores pessoais.”
Source: The Fear of the Feminine and Other Essays on Feminine Psychology
“A natureza é engenharia, a cultura também, a ciência está logo atrás, só o caos não é engenheiro”
Source: The Lost Daughter
“A natureza é o maior depósito descoberto neste planeta.”
“A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.”
“A nauseating display of statist brainwashing anywhere, Independence Day is especially trying on my small island. The entire landmass is littered with flag-waving tourists from North, South, East and West Jesus so unaware their country is a democracy in name only they wouldn’t know freedom if it bit them on their star-spangled asses.”
Source: Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun
“A nautilus shell. I've never found one before."
It was a nice big one, a rare find, not too damaged by the battering waves. Alex couldn't know it, but it was Mamma's favorite kind of shell. The nautilus is a symbol of harmony and peace, she used to say.
"You can have it if you want," he said, holding the shell out to her.
"No. You found it." Rosa kept her hands at her sides even though she wanted it desperately.
"I'm not good at keeping things." He wound up as if to throw it back into the surf.
"Don't! If you're not going to keep it, I will," Rosa said, grabbing it from him.
"I wasn't really going to throw it away," he said. "I just wanted you to have it.”
Source: Summer by the Sea
“A naval officer in a crisp blue uniform gave us a speech about the traditions of the sea, and how we were to uphold them throughout our upcoming careers. It all sounded glorious, but to us it seemed to drag on forever. There were others who added to these sentiments, also in glowing terms. In contrast to us, the officers all looked very professional and sharp in their dress uniforms. It made me very aware that I still didn’t even have my working boots, a belt or a white gob hat, but never mind, most of us were still out of uniform. I guess that’s why we were called muggs! Now with my right hand up, I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States and obey the lawful orders of those appointed over me, which was just about everybody. Flash bulbs went off and suddenly, I was in the Navy!
Wow! I was now a Midshipman in the U.S. Naval Reserve and did I ever feel proud. Unfortunately there wasn’t much time to bask in this solitary ray of light. The swearing in ceremony was hardly over and already I was late for lunch. I had to run double time between buildings, squaring all the corners along the way. So, doing my best to observe all of these new rules, I ran as fast as I could to the mess hall. Getting there just before they slammed the windows shut, I got the last two pre-made, soggy sandwiches. The sandwiches were wet and crushed, and I could swear they had greasy fingerprints on them. This sad excuse for food only looked appetizing because of my extreme hunger. With no time to waste, I washed lunch down with a glass of warm “jungle juice” reminiscent of Camp Wawayanda, before scurrying off to my next appointment, which was at the barbershop, also in the basement of Richardson Hall.”
“A navigational beacon in Katz's black Levi's, a long-dormant transmitter buried by a more advanced civilization, was sparking back to life. Where he ought to have felt guilty, he instead was getting hard. Oh, the clairvoyance of the dick: it could see the future in a heartbeat, leaving the brain to play catch-up and find the necessary route from occluded present to preordained outcome. Katz could see that Patty, in the seemingly random life-meanderings that Walter had just described to him, had in fact deliberately been trampling symbols in a cornfield, spelling out a message unreadable to Walter at ground level but clear as could be to Katz at great height: IT'S NOT OVER, IT'S NOT OVER.”
“A navy SEAL couldn't stand up to that shit, let alone a kid not old enough to have more than six hairs on his balls”
Source: The Institute
“A Navy study revealed a number of things that people with grit do—often unknowingly—that keep them going when things get hard. One of them comes up in the psychological research again and again: “positive self-talk.” Yes, Navy SEALs need to be badass, but one of the keys to that is thinking like The Little Engine That Could. In your head, you say between three hundred and a thousand words every minute to yourself. Those words can be positive (I can do it) or negative (Oh god, I can’t take this anymore). It turns out that when these words are positive, they have a huge effect on your mental toughness, your ability to keep going. Subsequent studies of military personnel back this up. When the Navy started teaching BUD/S applicants to speak to themselves positively, combined with other mental tools, BUD/S passing rates increased nearly ten percent. Getting through BUD/S is a lot of physical hardship, but quitting is mental. What does this have to do with insurance salesmen, you ask? Think about how people usually respond when asked to think about insurance salesmen: “Ugh.” It’s not just SEALs who take a battering; insurance salesmen face constant rejection. While you may think that the key to being a good salesperson is people skills or being extroverted, research shows that salespeople can be hired based on optimism alone. Researchers found that “agents who scored in the top 10 percent [of optimism] sold 88 percent more than the most pessimistic tenth.” It makes sense that optimism keeps us going, but it’s hard to believe that it has such powerful effects.”
Source: Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
“A Nazi initiation into the upper reaches of the SS was to gouge out the eye of a pet cat after feeding the cat and cuddling it for a month. This exercise was designed to eliminate all traces of pity-poison and mold a full Übermensch. There is a very sound magical postulate involved: the practitioner achieves superhuman status by performing some atrocious, revolting, subhuman act. In Morocco, magic men gain power by eating their own excrement.
But dig out Ruski’s eyes? Stack bribes to the radioactive sky. What does it profit a man? I could not occupy a body that could dig out Ruski’s eyes. So WHO gained the whole world? I didn’t. Any bargain involving exchange of qualitative values like animal love for quantitative advantage is not only dishonorable, as wrong as a man can get, it is also foolish. Because YOU get nothing. You have sold your YOU.”
Source: The Cat Inside
“A naïve, thick-headed, stereotypical jock who thinks he’s God’s gift to the world when he isn’t thinking the world is God’s gift to him.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit juice in it.”
Source: Caliban’s War
“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)”
Source: The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
“A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.”
“A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“A nebula is born from the cosmic finale of a fading star—a supernova's poignant adieu. Much like the echoes of someone's waning love!”
“A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.”
Source: Becoming Native to This Place
“A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.”
“A necessidade de atrair a atenção dos motores de busca e das redes sociais é um fator importante para a estupidificação dos meios de comunicação e para um estilo de jornalismo que empurra até mesmo as publicações de referência para uma cultura de exageros, falsas controvérsias e outras técnicas para aumentar o tráfego. A corrida aos lucros tem sido em parte o resultado de uma mudança básica da fonte de receitas do setor, das assinaturas para publicidade, e de uma base segura de leitores locais para a procura de leitores através das redes sociais.”
Source: WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
“A necessidade de calor humano leva-nos a procurar companhia nos sítios mais estranhos e, por vezes, nos menos adequados.”
Source: Percepção, uma estranha realidade
“A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)”
Source: The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide
“A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!”
“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“A need is a necessity”
“A need is life seeking expression within us.”
“A need is something that is required to keep you alive. A want is something that you think is required to make or keep you happy.”