Quotes 141 till 160 of 291.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
Pensees (1669) -
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
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Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
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Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
Striking Thoughts (2000) -
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
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Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak and human dignity must be enhanced.
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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
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