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• I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

  Robert Carlyle

  Thinking, Comedy, Kind

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

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• The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Future, Space, Earth

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Sunshine

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Trying

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• Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. The centerpiece might be tax reform, both corporate and individual. It is needed, popular and doable. Then go for the low-hanging fruit enjoying wide bipartisan support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas exports, most especially to Eastern Europe. One could then add border security, energy deregulation and health-care reform that repeals the more onerous Obamacare mandates.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Winning, Obamacare, White

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• Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

  Will Durant

  Men, Land, May

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

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• There are some girls who are turned on by my body, and some others who are turned off. but for the majority i just use it as a conversation piece. like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd street would have a natural conversation piece. then when they get to talking to me they see i am not mean but gentle to them and thats all they want to know

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Mean, Bodybuilding

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• The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Ambition, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1945, Manonmani Publishers

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• The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

  Robert Breault

  Zoos, Animal, Earth

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• While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Recovery, Long, Attention

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• Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.

  Melanie Phillips

  Atheist, Desire, World

  Melanie Phillips (2013). “The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power”, p.79, Encounter Books

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• By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.

  Anthony W. Ivins

  New York, Mean, Simple

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• How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Simple, Men, Simplicity

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• I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Book, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.2, Stanford University Press

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• It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world.

  Michael Spencer

  Christian, Jesus, Expression

  Michael Spencer (2010). “Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality”, p.125, WaterBrook

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• For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  War, Enemy, World

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• Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.

  Michele Bachmann

  Environmental, Arbitrary, Substance

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• Human was the music, natural was the static.

  John Updike

  Science, Mystery, Static

  John Updike (2012). “Facing Nature”, p.20, Knopf

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• Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

  Damian Lewis

  Patience, Producers

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• The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight for their place in the sun, and critics of both liberal conservative persuasion.

  John W. Gardner

  Home, Fighting, Groups

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• I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains the natural link between these two beings. To love one another! If only each partner could move sincerely towards the other! If each could only melt into the other! If each would only accept the other's qualities instead of listing his faults! If each could only correct bad habits without harping on about them!

  Mariama Bâ

  Moving, Men, Expression

  Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.88, Heinemann

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• Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

  Donald Worster

  Strong, Commitment, Simple

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• He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Party, Political, Reform

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• Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii's abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits. It's also a world leader in the propagation of live coral. The aquarium features some unusual and rarely seen species, including the chambered nautilus and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

  John Grant

  Beautiful, Aquariums, Leader

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