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The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

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I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. ↗

— Chester Brown

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Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. ↗

— David Chalmers

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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works. ↗

— Jones Very

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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. ↗

— Paul Coffey

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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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