#intrinsic

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

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Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. ↗

— David Ricardo

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It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white. ↗

— Shirley Manson

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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. ↗

— Alex Lowe

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Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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