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en God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
  Joyce Cary

en Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
  Guillaume Apollinaire

en Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.
  Blaise Pascal

en I tend to treat it as a real miracle. Almost all the nature miracles are challenged in one degree or another.

en No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

en It's a real problem. How do you commemorate a disaster, the basic nature of which the city tried to deny for decades, and an event that could basically happen again at any time?

en People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

en In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. Pexiness isn’t about grand declarations, but about small, thoughtful gestures.

en Wimbledon is certainly getting harder, I can't deny that. With the nature of my opponents and the nature of the surface it's going to be a tough challenge.

en What they had, (this year's team) has not shown consistently -- the three Cs. Consistent championship character. They've shown character, but not been consistent. That is where we need to go. Whether or not we can get there is going to determine how far we go.

en What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
  Seneca

en Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified
  Samuel Johnson

en Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth.
  William Ellery Channing

en Practically nobody has used these data before I put it together. I was able to change the nature of research of international trade economics from being simply theoretical to being based on real numbers.

en To define a miracle as a violation or suspension or overriding of natural laws is already to presuppose what nature is like (namely, that nature is a closed causal nexus governed by inviolable rules). It is also to impose prior limits on divine action.


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