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• We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Animal, Natural

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• I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Practice, Singing

  "Singer / Song-writer Norah Jones TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2004.

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• To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Needs, Natural, Circumstances

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

  Thomas Traherne

  Inspirational, Nature, Natural

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Giving Up, Real

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in the dark respecting the Laws, he was completely wrong in his conception of the nature of Motion. ...He thought that every body in motion naturally tends to rest.

  George Henry Lewes

  Dark, Law, Ignorant

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.126, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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• What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Atheism, Principles, Needs

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• I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

  Aretha Franklin

  Natural

  "Aretha Franklin on why she'll never stop singing". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. November 25, 2015.

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• Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Law, Succeed, Doe

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.20, Penguin

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• I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes. I can't help it. I can't help but desire for the narrative to be as complicated and as truthful as possible. That's just the way my head works.

  Justin Simien

  Writing, Desire, Narrative

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

  Gaspar Noe

  Falling In Love, Love Is, World

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Two, People

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• It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him "my God, you are like a young Michael Bublé. It happened to Harry Connick Jr with the Sinatra thing and now people are saying to me that I am the new Harry Connick Jr. It is a natural thing. I remember hearing interviews with Harry Connick saying "I am not Sinatra, leave me alone, I am different". It's a small thing to deal with.

  Michael Buble

  Kids, Years, People

  Interview with Edina Patsy, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.

  Liza Minnelli

  Parent, Curiosity, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a teenager, I remember I wanted to put so much makeup on - it was just a natural thing over there. Why they do it, I guess, is because historically, there were twice as many women as there were men after the World War II.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Teenager, War, Men

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rip, Heart, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.

  John Burdett

  Income, Alternatives, World

  "Bangkok 8". Book by John Burdett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2003.

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• I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Thinking, Wind, Well Known

  "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, 2007.

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• I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.

  Alana Haim

  Beautiful, Roots, Looks

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• I love watching people improve it is a natural thing for me to do.

  Robin Farina

  People, Natural

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• I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

  Pam Houston

  Writing, Thinking, Natural

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Way, Rewriting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.

  Merzbow

  Home, Play, Creating

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"

  Kelli O'Hara

  Mean, Thinking, Parent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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