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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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Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. ↗

— Jackie Weaver

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I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

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I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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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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I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys. ↗

— Tom Hardy

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Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. ↗

— John Barth

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There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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