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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
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The most versatile lipstick you can own is a shade that's just a bit brighter than your natural lip color.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
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The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
A Distant Mirror -
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
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