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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
View quotes by Jonathan Swift

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favours not only the clever but the murderous.
View quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
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After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.
View quotes by Trevor Dunn

I am pretty much comfortable with nudity. I think sex is very natural. I have been turned on by a great kiss, but never when you're naked and you're out there and exposed
View quotes by Natasha Henstridge

I like it [Australia] a lot, I think it's a terrific country; they really know how to live. The natural history of the place is endlessly fascinating.
View quotes by Bill Bryson

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity
View quotes by David Hume

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species
View quotes by Konrad Lorenz

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
View quotes by John Updike

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf

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.
View quotes by Frank Moore Colby

Everything that is right or natural pleasds for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
View quotes by Thomas Paine

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
View quotes by Jack Nicklaus

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
View quotes by Stephen Jay Gould

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
View quotes by Adam Smith

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
View quotes by Claud Cockburn

If he fluffed and fumbled that was natural. If he told awful jokes people liked that. He did the programme so well on a friendly, human basis. [on Richard Whiteley]
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