"Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her."

-- John Dryden

#Nature Quotes #Chaucer Quotes

“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”

Source : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists”, p.132, Random House
“I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling”
“I mean, the job is Pearl Harbor. And you better not spends weeks and weeks and weeks trying to assign blame or deciding on a complete plan for fighting the whole war, you know, and letting a committee decide where the battleships should go and all of that. You better spring into action with the best people you have.”
“Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.”

Source : Julianna Baggott (2001). “Girl Talk”, p.232, Simon and Schuster
“The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.”
“Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.”
“We think people who make a lot of income and have a lot of net-worth are pretty well served.”
“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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