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«Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.»
«All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.»
Author: Harvey Cox | About: People | Keywords: abiding, innate, main, meeting, provided, stories
«All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.»
«Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.»
Author: Ludwig von Mises | Keywords: innate, outcome
«All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Progress | Keywords: income, innate, organism, organisms
«Every child born, has innate goodness.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | About: Children, Goodness | Keywords: innate
«Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?»
«Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstaking»
«I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.»
«I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.»

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