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• I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Powerful, Independent, Men

  "Civilisation, War and Death".

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• Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Views, Ordinary, Ethics

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• Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Race, Sexuality

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• There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

  Steven Pinker

  Culture, Doe, Acquire

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• I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.

  Romola Garai

  Successful, Annoyed, Theatre

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• I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

  Ricky Williams

  Compassion, Use, Saws

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• You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Sick, Choices

  "A Call to Action: Why Our Health Matters" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

  Alice Walker

  God, Experience, Possibility

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• Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

  Diana Vreeland

  Elegance, Well Dressed, Refusal

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• I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

  John Travolta

  Cinema, Legends, Genes

  Parade Interview, parade.com. December 4, 2007.

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• The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

  Donna Tartt

  Reading, Practice, Style

  Barnes & Noble Interview, www.barnesandnoble.com.

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• I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Self, People

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• I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well.

  Judith Butler

  Jobs, Sex, Vocabulary

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Pursuit Of Happiness, Desire

  "Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language.

  Steven Pinker

  Kids, Race, Culture

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• But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Mean, Violence

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• The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

  Ivan Illich

  Attitude, Believe, Acceptance

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• Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Beauty, Taken, Self

  Marjorie Holmes (1991). “Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Practice, Important, Elements

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• Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

  Thomas Mann

  Privilege, Artistic, Injustice

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• Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Cells, Survival

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

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• He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It had to be. His burning love for her cursed through him until he felt so full he didn’t know whether he would fit through the portal.

  Lauren Kate

  Distance, Waiting, Burning

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• ‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Soul, Vices

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• Ultimately, I don't know if love is an organizing principle we choose or if it's innate. I'm not sure the distinction matters to me much anymore; I just care about how we can reduce unnecessary suffering. I think that means learning to love in both the micro and the macro; engaging in ethical action at the level of intimacy and friendship, but also at the vocational level through our chosen work in the world, our right livelihood.

  C.E. Morgan

  Mean, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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