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		Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Gilmore Simms
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think it's only natural to want to look good. I enjoy good clothes, so 18 years ago I moved to having custom-made suits. They last longer. They fit you better. In my opinion, I think men don't spend enough on clothes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Raymond Kelly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Dessen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Washington
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Lapworth
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thomas Nagel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		As for the President-elect [Donald Trump], he has his own views on things, and this is also fairly natural.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vladimir Putin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Willa Cather
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Teju Cole
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Susan Powter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albertus Magnus
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Murray Gell-Mann
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Saoirse Ronan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Kellogg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Stephen Covey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carroll Quigley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rigoberta Menchu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Judith Malina