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“There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.”

Men Humans Littles War Humanity Nature Forget Human Nature Including Favors

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.”

Needs Wisdom Reality Action Easy Community Leadership Forget Human Nature Health Balance Reflection Ideology Distraction Pauses

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.”

“We consider the Holocaust as being a sort of strange event taking place on another planet; we never understood in a visceral way that this is something that took place in the heart of man. That's something that you can feel, the genocidal tendency is within human nature. It seems that if we forget about this, our future is also compromised.”

Ifs Men Way Feels Humans Heart Seems Forget Events Human Nature Strange Planets Understood Tendencies Our Future Holocaust Visceral

Author:Laszlo Nemes

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

“Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.”

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”

Humans Lost Nature Forget Human Nature Connections Separation

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.”

Mean Found Forget Human Nature Aim Forgiving Selfish Never Forget Cowardly Treacherous Indirect Ignoble

Book:Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General, U. S. Army

Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General, U. S. Army

“To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.”

Men Want Would Be Forget Human Nature Motive Ambitious Contests Vindictive

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.”

Should Humans Children Soul Faces Choices Difficult Forget Streets Human Nature Tears Mercy Interfere Human Soul Hesitation Rags Humanness Perplexed Perplexity Forget Him

Author:Charles Loring Brace

“Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.”

Men Forget Animal Results Human Nature Humane

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch