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Self-preservation is the first law of nature. -- Samuel Butler
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. -- Henry Adams
The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself. -- Damon Lindelof
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. -- Maria Mitchell
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. -- Edmund Burke
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. -- Edmund Burke
Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man... -- Anonymous
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature. -- Djuna Barnes
Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers. -- Henry David Thoreau
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lot of things in nature answers to increase which is a law of nature -- Sunday Adelaja
It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through. -- Bernard Darwin
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. -- Confucius
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star. -- Booker T. Washington
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. -- William Blackstone
Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another. -- Paul Valery
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. -- H. G. Wells
When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. -- John Paul Jones
War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. -- Aldous Huxley
Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back. -- Camille
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world? -- Richard Hooker
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself. -- William Barclay
It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road. -- Konosuke Matsushita
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. -- Samuel Adams
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature. -- H. A. L. Fisher
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature. -- Stephen King
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity. -- John Locke
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. -- Steve Maraboli
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on. -- Karen Marie Moning
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence. -- Thomas More
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. -- Voltaire
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle. -- Peter Kropotkin
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love. -- Marcel Proust
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. -- Dee Hock
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving. -- Mahatma Gandhi
[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society. -- William Blackstone
There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated. -- Sue Grafton
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature. -- Bryan Cranston
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. -- Max Beerbohm
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings. -- Alphonsus Liguori
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There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to. -- Scott Hastie
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. -- Edward Gibbon
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. -- Herodotus
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded. -- Michel de Montaigne
The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact -- Rhonda Byrne
God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other. -- George Sand
Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on. -- Napoleon Hill
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion. -- Bertrand Russell
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society. -- Swami Vivekananda
Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core. -- Ilona Andrews
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. -- Ethan Allen
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations. -- William H. Seward
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else. -- Peyton C. March
I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature. -- Pat Robertson
What you sow, you reap. It's a law of nature. Network Marketing is perfectly aligned with that. You get truly, EXACTLY what you're worth! No nepotism, no favoritism. That's rare today. -- Bob Proctor
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it. -- Edward Forbes
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society. -- Maria Montessori
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. -- Voltaire
The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature. -- Samuel Smiles
I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something. -- Kate Bush
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. -- William H. Seward
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. -- Samuel Adams
The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own. -- James Otis
It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. -- Tarja Halonen
The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within. -- T.F. Hodge
Change is the only universal law in nature. People resist the universal law of nature. As if they can resist it. And they suffer. People suffer because of their own resistance and rigidness. Otherwise, life if so simple and straight-forward. -- His Holiness Divas
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction. -- Hilary Putnam
I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it. -- David Chalmers
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature... no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent. -- William Penn
The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature. -- Adolf Hitler
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions. -- Dave Smalley
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem. -- Henri Poincare
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. -- William H. Seward
When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe. -- Lee Smolin
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come. -- Lucretia Mott
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author -- Thomas Jefferson
Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. -- Nikola Tesla
Law is born from despair of human nature. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. -- Luc de Clapiers
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. -- C. S. Lewis
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. -- Euclid
I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena. -- David Gross
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. -- David Gerrold
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. -- Luther Burbank
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. -- Michael Faraday
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. -- Jacob Bronowski
Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture. -- Brian Greene
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. -- Jack Kingston
There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. -- Tom Shadyac
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. -- William Law
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. -- John Dryden
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. -- John Dryden
Time is the supreme Law of nature. -- Arthur Eddington
Nature's laws have to supersede man's law. -- Mary Beth Whitehead
Nature hath no goal though she hath law. -- John Donne
Habit is the deepest law of human nature -- Thomas Carlyle
Nature hath no goal, though she hath law. -- John Donne
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. -- Immanuel Kant
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
People must help one another; it is nature's law. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange. -- John Wilmot
Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change. -- Robert Burns
Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. -- Adolf Hitler
Subject to the law(s) of nature, hate is born to die -- T.F. Hodge
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. -- Andrew Marvell
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. -- Samuel Daniel
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. -- Charles Edward Merriam

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