"Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Climate Change Quotes #Deviation Quotes

“Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.”
“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”
“Be careful who you share your weakness with. Some people can't wait for the opportunity to use them against you.”
“Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.”
“Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”

Source : William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.300, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
“Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.”

Source : "One original gangster". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2010.
“America is a land of creators and rebels.”
“In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.”

Source : "Eugenics, academic and practical". "The Eugenics Review" Journal, 1935.

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