Natural Quotes - Page 6

• We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support

  Hjalmar Branting

  Years, Support, Understanding

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• There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, New Orleans, History

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.492

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• Be natural and use your head.

  Dai Vernon

  Magic, Use

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• Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Mother, Father, Integrity

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• Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

  Stephen Covey

  Law, Our Actions, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

  A. A. Gill

  Science, Museums, Order

  A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Mother, Giving, Age

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• We were both sort of bowled over by the fact that we were married. It wasn't a question of 'Have we done the right thing?' It was all perfectly natural that we should be together. But John didn't get a real chance to be first a real husband or later, a real father. Once he got on the Beatles bangwagon he couldn't get off, even if he wanted to.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Husband, Father, Real

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• Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

  Calvin Trillin

  Color, Dry, Selling

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• The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

  Manuel de Falla

  Art, Guitar, Effort

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• I have tried every amp, distortion box, gadget etc. that has ever been made since 1967 to present and nothing has sounded like the Tonebone. It has become an incredible asset to my sound and I recommend this to anyone who is looking for that NATURAL warm sound with sustain for days and days! Buy this now!

  Steve Lukather

  Etc, Sound, Gadgets

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• Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

  Alexandra Kollontai

  Hunger, Instinct, Sexuality

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• Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers of rebirth. To live with these layers is to be a true Louisianian. This state has a depth that is simultaneously beyond words and yet as natural as breathing. How can a place be both other-worldly and completely pedestrian is beyond me; however, Louisiana manages to do it. Louisiana is spooky that way.

  Don Lemon

  Race, Breathing, Class

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• How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?

  Valerie Martin

  Eye, Animal, Teeth

  Valerie Martin (2013). “The Great Divorce”, p.39, Vintage

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• Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.

  Janine Benyus

  Moving, Book, Thinking

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• I love Mix Tape. It combines three great elements - magic, music and a natural way of performing. I know that every time you perform Mix Tape you will feel like you're presenting someone with a very special gift. I've never come across a routine so natural and so strong. Use this and you will be the wonder worker they talk about long after you have left.

  Luke Jermay

  Strong, Long, Magic

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• It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Ambition, Agony

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.274, Pollinger in Print

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• Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

  John Goodlad

  Children, Parent

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• I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

  Renee Fleming

  Thinking, Singing, Difficult

  "Diva in Demand: Soprano Renee Fleming". "PBS NewsHour", www.pbs.org. October 12, 1999.

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• The first time I saw Giggsy, he was playing for Salford Boys against United's apprentices. He was thin and wiry but he just glided past four of our apprentices as if they weren't even there, then he put the ball in the back of the net. I just thought 'This kid's an absolute natural'

  Bryan Robson

  Kids, Boys, Past

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• Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

  Holly Near

  Art, Self, Magic

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• When I perform, I simply follow the music, and my heart; everything comes from me in a very natural way - it's not a show; and I believe in this way, it also touches the hearts of those in the audience.

  Lang Lang

  Believe, Heart, Way

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• Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.

  Jolene Blalock

  And Love, Nudity, Accepting

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

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• The secret to tapping into the supernatural is for you to have the courage to do the natural first.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Secret, Firsts, Tapping

  Jentezen Franklin (2010). “Fear Fighters: How to Live With Confidence in a World Driven by Fear”, p.154, Charisma Media

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• The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?

  Eric Voegelin

  Block, Philosophy, Reality

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