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" The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. "

Zora Neale Hurston

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" I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop. "

" 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. "

" Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. "

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Zora Neale Hurston

" It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. "

" I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali. "

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" I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. "

" Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. "

William Wordsworth

" No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment. "

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" I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. "

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George Bernard Shaw

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" Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. "