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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Richard Dawkins

Existence, Theory, Principle

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Principles, Custom

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley

Nature, Drunk, Fighting

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson

Power, Lost, State

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education, Often, Ability

It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

Person, Find, Style

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Blaise Pascal

Love, Mind, True

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Knowledge, Rejection

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death, Human, State

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing, Desire, Appear

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing, Ourselves, Seem

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
Charles Dickens

Person, Two, Another

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana

Death, Sleep, Done

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin

End, Beginning, Mountains

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

Happiness, Flower, Duty

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.
Adam Smith

Love, Men, Country

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne

Human, May, Brave

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon

Experience, Give, Study

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Marie Curie

Him, Child, Though

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Authority, Fellow

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
Richard Dawkins

Design, Car, Himself

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.
Nick Clegg

Time, End, Long

Natural selection is anything but random.
Richard Dawkins

Random, Selection

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
John Ruskin

Mind, Almost, Compensate

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge, Children, Evil

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

Men, Death, Fear

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts

God, Different, Universe

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Calvin Coolidge

Nature, Men, Challenge

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon

Die, Born, Painful

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