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• Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has the ability to reach out and touch in a humane and warmly illuminating way the solitude, even the loneliness, of others. That is why, to me, poetry is one of the most vital treasures that humanity possesses; it is a bridge between separated souls.

  Brendan Kennelly

  Art, Loneliness, Bridges

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• Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wicked, Poison

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• Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Men, Animal, Moral

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• Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence)

  Harold Bloom

  Dark, Past, Counter Culture

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• It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.

  Chad Harbach

  Love, Long, Matter

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• There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Discovery, Self

  "Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote".

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• No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

  Ben Elton

  People, Waiting, Conversation

  "Stark". Book by Ben Elton, 1989.

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• There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

  Lisa Murkowski

  Alaska, People, Trying

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• The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, History, Political

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• I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.

  Stephen Covey

  Father, Believe, Animal

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.450, Mango Media Inc.

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• As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Our World, Genius

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 26, 2011

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• Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Heaven, Rewards

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.373

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• All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Ideas, Tree

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii's abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits. It's also a world leader in the propagation of live coral. The aquarium features some unusual and rarely seen species, including the chambered nautilus and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

  John Grant

  Beautiful, Aquariums, Leader

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• [My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo. ... [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again

  Dian Fossey

  Baby, Zoos, Home

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• Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Balance, Fundamentals, Elements

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• Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

  Pema Chodron

  Details, Mindfulness, World

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry.

  Natalie

  Oil, Yesterday, Essentials

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• It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Teaching, Heart

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• The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.

  Stephen Neill

  Teacher, Inspiration, Men

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• It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Goal, Effort

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• Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the soul and begin looking for substances to replace the flow.

  Michael Meade

  Thinking, Soul, Substance

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• It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Enmity, Proof

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “According to Promise”, p.27, Gideon House Books

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• Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

  Brian Froud

  Healing, Men, Self

  Brian Froud, Jessica Macbeth (2000). “Faeries' Oracle”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• This love for everyday things,
  part natural from the wide eye of Infancy,
  part a literary calculation

  Billy Collins

  Eye, Everyday Things, Infancy

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