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• Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Natural Talent, Discipline

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.4704, Delphi Classics

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• The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Scarcity, Members

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Reality, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.29, Penguin

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• Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White influence and culture, they reverted quickly to their genotype - increasingly typical of black societies around the world. Males exhibited exaggerated sexual aggression and promiscuity that led to the dissolution of the Black nuclear family in America. Females reverted to the age-old African model of maternal provisioning of children.

  David Duke

  Children, Independent, America

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• California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Hard Work, California

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• The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Beauty, Honesty, World

  "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, the edition by Philip Ayres, 1999.

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• A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Beauty, Generosity, Appreciate

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• Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

  Herbert Spencer

  Beauty, Sculpture, Half

  Herbert Spencer (1866). “Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.72

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• Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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• Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.

  Laozi

  Light, Sight, Meditation

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• We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

  Peter MacKay

  Country, Stress, Support

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• Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

  Paddy Ashdown

  People, Criticism, Hurtful

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• Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Humanity, Adults

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• She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic smile, the course of whose life would conspire in time to transpose that pair of adjectives.

  Michael Chabon

  Girl, Eye, Delicate Life

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.192, Open Road Media

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• The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Eight, Years, People

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• If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a natural offshoot of the experimental and creative process and often learned more from their failures than their successes. By taking the attitude that failure is merely a detour on the way to our destination, hope can blossom into success.

  John Templeton

  Attitude, Failure, Successful

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• Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or emotional pain. Now notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. Usually the result is increased energy and power and a sense of natural flow. When you're at one with yourself, the world feels peaceful, exciting, and magical.

  Shakti Gawain

  Pain, Emotional, Peaceful

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• Receiving and giving are opposite energies that are inextricably linked together in the natural flow of life, like inhaling and exhaling. If one aspect of that cycle doesn't function, the entire cycle ceases to function and the life force cannot move freely. If you can't inhale, you will soon have nothing to exhale, and before long, your body will be unable to continue living.

  Shakti Gawain

  Moving, Opposites, Long

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Creating True Prosperity”, p.62, New World Library

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• Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is getting something. The truth is doing us good. The truth of the sunshine, the truth of the rain, the truth of the fresh air, the truth of the wind in the trees, these are truths. And they are always accessible!

  Thomas Merton

  Rain, Sunshine, Air

  "Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected".

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• Reverence is a perception of the soul. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul reveres all of Life. When the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot perceive life except with reverence. Approaching life with reverence is a step toward moving the personality into alignment with the soul because it brings an aspect of the soul directly into the physical environment.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Personality, Soul

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• Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Sex, Men, Feminism

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• By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.

  Owen Barfield

  Men, Historical, Would Be

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• Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Teacher, Taken, Class

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