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• All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

  Ted Dekker

  Spiritual, Religious, Real

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• If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Mean, Atoms, Nuclear

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.61, Princeton University Press

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• Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

  William A. Dembski

  Antibiotics, Bacteria, Gains

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• In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

  Charles Edison

  Two, Miracle, Would Be

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• My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Drama, School, College

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• I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.

  Magdalena Frackowiak

  Makeup, Looks, Natural Look

  "Model Hot Seat: Magdalena Frackowiak" by Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. September 11, 2009.

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• I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

  Rila Fukushima

  Acting, Video, Film

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• Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

  Joshua Ferris

  Loneliness, People, Community

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• I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

  Ari Graynor

  Children, Growing Up, Fall

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

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• The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

  Jay Griffiths

  Loss, Silence, Mind

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  Karen Gillan

  Thinking, People, Chemistry

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• I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

  Adam Garcia

  Dog, Thinking, Feet

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• I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

  Bear Grylls

  Religious, Kids, God Exists

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• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stars, Aka, Worst Nightmares

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• Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

  Jeff Goodell

  Climate, Coal, Facts

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• A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

  Jesse James Garrett

  People, Giving, Preparation

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Mother, Father, Other Cultures

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• Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?

  Monica Ali

  Jobs, Giving, Complaining

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• Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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• I'm just not a natural teacher.

  David Benioff

  Teacher

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• It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

  Omar Epps

  Directors, Actors, Relate

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• Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

  Marvin Gaye

  Reality, Hands, Pay

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• You make me feel like a natural man

  Carole King

  Men, You Make Me Feel, Feels

  "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (song) (1967)

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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, Investigation

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• We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

  Laura Bush

  Nature, Children, Community

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