"All Nature wears one universal grin."

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"A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!"

— Laozi

Literature-579–-500

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"There was such a wonderful setting of the moon this morning, the yellow moon against little pink clouds, and the mountains a pure deep blue , quite glorious, I would so have liked to paint. But it was…"

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Art1880–1938

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"'Peoples of the earth, you have all been poisoned.' Convert all available stocks of morphine to apomorphine. Chemists, work round the clock on variation and synthesis of the apomorphine formulae."

— William S. Burroughs

Literature1914–1997

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"I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin"

— Alexander Mackenzie

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