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We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.
Peter Beard
Great
Nature
People
Diversity
Doctors
Whatever
Every
Other
Adding
Spin
Similar
More
Ecology
Like
Supposedly
Always
Than
Decade
Any
Human
Expense
Just
Billion
Elephant
Elephants
Young boys must be taught to play football without leading with or lowering their heads. Young players must be drilled over and over and over with Heads Up Football skills until that skill set becomes muscle memory and second nature.
Peter Berg
Nature
Memory
Young
Must
Football
Leading
Over
Heads
Until
Without
Becomes
Boy
Up
Taught
Young Players
Skill
Skills
Lowering
Play
Play Football
Second
Players
Muscle
Second Nature
Set
The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view of human nature. This diagnosis leads to the prognosis that all we need to do to solve the terrorism problem is to create societies that are less poor, better educated and have more opportunities.
Peter Bergen
Education
Nature
Terrorism
Problem
Better
Opportunities
Poverty
Human Nature
Solve
More
Leads
Diagnosis
Educated
Optimistic
Lack
Human
Poor
Create
Much
Requires
View
Less
Societies
Fundamentally
Need
This year, 1996, has been designated the 'Year of the Vaccine,' commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's vaccination of James Phipps with cowpox virus and subsequent challenge with smallpox virus. Insight into the nature of viruses, and how viruses interact with mammalian cells, has evolved since the turn of the century.
Peter C. Doherty
Nature
Challenge
Year
Virus
Viruses
Has-Been
Evolved
Insight
Smallpox
Anniversary
Since
How
Been
Edward
Subsequent
Cells
Interact
James
Turn
Century
Vaccination
Vaccine
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
Peter D. Mitchell
Time
Nature
Lonely
Difficult
Colleagues
Find
His
Very
May
Unfamiliar
Meanwhile
Theory
Views
Originator
Appreciate
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
Peter Davison
Good
Nature
Every
Too
Find
Atlantic
Some
Poems
Poetry
Involved
Readers
Because
Often
Little
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
Peter Lynch
Nature
You
World
Long
Human Nature
Every
Pleasurable
Something
Doing
Years
Human
Which
Succeed
Double
Population
Keep
Why
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
Peter Senge
Nature
Society
Further
Understand
Human
Interdependence
Less
Human Society
Away
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
Peter Senge
Nature
Challenge
Face
Our
Machines
Seeing
Institutions
Most
Human
Them
Transition
Universal
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
Peter Singer
Nature
Pretty
Understand
Modern
Anything
Interference
Notion
Gross
Farming
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
Philip Emeagwali
Nature
Borrow
Smarter
Than
Wheels
Reinvent
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Philip Emeagwali
Nature
Problems
Focus
Mysteries
Important
Solve
Solving
Using
Deeper
Societal
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Philip James Bailey
Art
God
Nature
Man
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
Philip Pullman
Nature
Own
Else
Argue
Anything
Anything Else
Your
Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.
Philippe Petit
Myself
Nature
Age
Energy
Other
Other Kids
Solely
Kid
Kids
Out
Willingness
Had
Perfection
Liked
Unusual
Truly
Quest
Very
Very Early Age
Taste
Just
Which
Little
Little Kid
Things
Early
Started
Early Age
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
Phillip E. Johnson
Life
Nature
Science
Natural
Assumption
Rules
Possible
Has-Been
Makes
How
Governed
Been
Began
Times
Same
Confident
Explain
Places
Natural Science
Such Things
Things
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron
God
Nature
Wise
Man
World
Word
Preach
Both
Study
Him
Himself
Deed
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
Pierre Schaeffer
Music
Nature
Complete
Complete Mystery
Ancient
Variations
Mystery
True
Contained
Exercise
True Nature
Reveals
Which
Explained
Theme
Moment
Right
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nature
Our
Recognize
Tendency
Know
Always
Been
Discover
Deep
The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.
Piet Mondrian
Nature
Natural
Sky
Reconstruction
Given
Nevertheless
Make
Without
Does
Am
Representation
Which
Working
Now
Specific
Thing
Starry
Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!
Piet Mondrian
Nature
Nothing
Says
Given
He
May
Who
Whoever
Right
Starting
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.
Pieter Zeeman
Nature
Rule
Triplets
Only
Gives
Exceptions
Splitting
Surprises
Lines
Very
Quickly
Us
Many
Including
Found
PM Modi has provided visionary leadership with his focus on the welfare of the poor and inclusive nature taking along his whole team, including states, parties, all schools of thought, all sections of society.
Piyush Goyal
Leadership
Nature
Welfare
Focus
Thought
Inclusive
Society
States
Sections
Visionary
Taking
Along
Parties
Schools
His
Provided
Poor
Team
Whole
Including
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
Nature
Justice
Injustice
Equality
More
Only
Also
Than
Disgraceful
Custom
Then
Suffer
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Pliny the Elder
Work
Nature
Man
Challenge
Hath
He
Counterfeit
Learned
Audacity
Bold
Her
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!
Pliny the Elder
Art
Nature
Man
Challenge
Drinking
Become
Pleasure
Both
Delighted
Obscene
He
Takes
Learned
How
His
Subjects
Cups
Very
Form
Vice
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