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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
I wasn't a natural defender. I was a striker as a kid. I have learned a lot but there is more to learn, of course.
Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.
The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.
The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.
Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.
Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death
It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.
Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe.
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.
Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
I think Donald Trump's natural tendency in all things is to resist any "deal" where he doesn't get to set the terms.
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.
So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.
I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.
Why use your natural abilities to make someone feel bad? I just want to be the guy who uses his power to be positive.
It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.