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“In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.”

“The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.”

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Author:Bobby Jindal

“I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.”

Art Said Nature Heard Share Creating

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”

Said Light Law Science Night Nature Lays Mathematician Newton God And Science Science God Funny Science

Author:Alexander Pope

“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”

Said Body Artist Religion Nature Philosopher Motherhood Gods Will Mysterious Grandchildren Falling Water

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”

Said Nature Being The Best Openness Remedy Sunlight Publicity Electric Light

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.”

Source: A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns

“Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.”

Ifs Looks Said Stars Water Nature Trouble Fields Cures Look Up Swim

Author:Fatema Mernissi

“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.”

Knows Children Said Hands Nature Answers Plant Grass Leaves Of Grass Green Grass Grass Growing

Author:Walt Whitman

“If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.”

People Ifs Said Care Nature Animal Superiors Tao Of Pooh

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.”

Said Stills Humor Literature Nature Poor Rich Cry Independent Deep Thought Vaccines

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.”

Trying Said Nature Miracle Spiders Miraculous

Author:E. B. White

“When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.”

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Author:Thomas Kuhn

“We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.”

Source: A history of the earth and animated nature, with an intr. view of the animal kingdom tr. from the Fr. of baron Cuvier, notes [and] a life of the author by W. Irving

“You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.”

Source: The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby