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• All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

  Epicurus

  Goal, Pleasure, Sensations

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• The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die.

  Michael Crichton

  Nature, Giving, Expectations

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Running, Long, Giving

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• Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

  Ugo Betti

  Men, Order, Insecurity

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Law, Feminism

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.57, Booklassic

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• Natural Born Killers is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

  Woody Harrelson

  Misunderstood, Killers, Comedy

  "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

  Adam Clarke

  Men, Race, May

  Adam Clarke (1837). “An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age”, p.37

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• Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Rights, Law

  William Blackstone (1922). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books”, p.45, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Shoes, Feet

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• I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Morning, Evil, Doubt

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• Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

  Douglas Coupland

  Senior, Long, Toasters

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• It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Doctors, Humanity

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

  Eustace Budgell

  Self, Ideas, Desire

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• Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it.

  Richard Leakey

  Long, Goal, Firsts

  "The Origin of Humankind". Book by Richard Leakey, 1994.

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• Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

  Richard Leakey

  Nature, Culture, World

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• All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Character, Order, Consistency

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• Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Character, Air, Knowing

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• I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Believe, Thinking, Play

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• What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Men, Society, Trying

  "Du Contrat Social" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, 1913.

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• Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Taken, Giving, Enthusiasm

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• Many women feel it is natural to consult with their partners at every turn, while many men automatically make more decisions without consulting their partners.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Decision, Partners

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

  Paul Davies

  Competition, Would Be, Earth

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• A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

  John Ralston Saul

  Distance, Political, May

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• He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Two, Mind, Body

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.195, Routledge

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• It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

  Friedrich Engels

  Running, Russia, Frontiers

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1952). “The Russian menace to Europe: a collection of articles, speeches, letters, and news dispatches, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels”

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