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• The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Pursuit Of Happiness, Desire

  "Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.

  Michael Ventura

  Religious, Art, Creativity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Powerful, Independent, Men

  "Civilisation, War and Death".

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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Self, People

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• There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

  Halle Berry

  People, Belief, Relentless

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• Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Enlightenment, Body

  "Inspire! What Great Leaders Do" by Lance Secretan, (p. 45), 2004.

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• Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

  Diana Vreeland

  Elegance, Well Dressed, Refusal

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• Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.

  Albert Hadley

  Self, Discipline, Design

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• The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

  Alice Walker

  God, Experience, Possibility

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• You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Sick, Choices

  "A Call to Action: Why Our Health Matters" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

  Ricky Williams

  Compassion, Use, Saws

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• I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.

  Romola Garai

  Successful, Annoyed, Theatre

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• I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

  John Travolta

  Cinema, Legends, Genes

  Parade Interview, parade.com. December 4, 2007.

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• Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

  Max Beerbohm

  Humility, Guests, Virtue

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.69, New York Review of Books

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• The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

  Donna Tartt

  Reading, Practice, Style

  Barnes & Noble Interview, www.barnesandnoble.com.

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• By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Names, Ideas

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the judge … since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. … I will also give reason and take it. … This generation has an innate vice. It can’t accept anything that has been discovered by a contemporary!

  Adelard of Bath

  Giving, Judging, Generations

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• How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest cast. His law is action: gates of power stand open in his view; a restless soul, a holy zeal, shall give him entrance through.

  Deron Williams

  Men, Views, Law

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• If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Believe, Trying

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.323, Hoover Press

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• If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Men, Self, Stronger

  Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272

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• Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Responsibility, Equality

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• I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Death, Self, Long

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• I see a generation comprised of all ages, inclusive of men and women, awakening to the extraordinary qualities hidden within. The power to accomplish remarkable feats and live an exceptional life is not defined by an individual's family, education, or occupation; it's a disposition of the heart. Unless it's suppressed, there is an innate desire to rise above the norm. I encourage you to step into the unknown, embrace the divine empowerment, and live your extraordinary life.

  John Bevere

  Heart, Men, Age

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