Natural

Not because so many Americans are ignorant bible-thumping bigots, but because they have a healthy and natural aversion to homosexuality - an aversion *placed there by nature* because it isn't *natural* for people of the same gender to have sexual relations. ❋ Jeff Massie (2009)

Our ˜natural benevolent affections™ guide us to do good toward some small sector of humankind (a small sector composed of our friends, promisees, colleagues, family, etc.), and stifling such natural tendencies would leave only “a very feeble counterpoise to self-love” and thus little from which to develop a more extended and generalized benevolence (434). ❋ Jeske, Diane (2008)

Since the natural end of each person is to achieve moral and spiritual perfection, it is necessary to have the means to do so, i.e., to have rights which, since they serve to realise his or her nature, are called ˜natural™. ❋ Sweet, William (2008)

It might be thought that there is nothing that can be done to begin a discussion of natural law theory in ethics other than to stipulate a meaning for ˜natural law theory™ and to proceed from there. ❋ Murphy, Mark (2008)

Most often, ˜non-naturalism™ denotes the metaphysical thesis that moral properties exist and are not identical with or reducible to any natural property or properties in some interesting sense of ˜natural™. ❋ Ridge, Michael (2008)

And when Dr. Martineau talks of the "natural penalties for guilt," and adds that "sin being there, it would be simply monstrous that there should be no suffering and would fully justify the despair which now raises its sickly cry of complaint against the retributory wretchedness of human transgression" (_Study_ II., p. 106), the reply is that there are no such things as "_natural_ penalties for guilt." ❋ Chapman Cohen (N/A)

I am frequently asked if the natural instincts of men and women will not guide aright in the selection of a consort, and my answer is yes, if the instincts of men and women _were natural_. ❋ William Windsor (N/A)

Our natural anticipations deceive us -- I say _natural_ in contra-distinction to extravagant expectations. ❋ Frederick W. Robertson (N/A)

We should not object to that inequality which is natural -- to the superior ability and superior virtue which place one man far above his fellows; but we should object to an immense inequality, _which is not natural_, and which sometimes places the superior man at the mercy and in the service of one who has no ability whatever, -- who is simply born to rule by means of _hereditary wealth_. ❋ Various (1888)

The prophecies of the Bible are not vague general denunciations of natural decline and extinction to all the nations of the world, which, if they were merely the exposition of a universal _natural_ law of national death, they would be; nor yet the application of any such natural and inevitable law to some particular nation, denouncing its destruction, without any specification of time, manner, instrument, or cause of its infliction. ❋ Robert Patterson (1857)

Countries therefore which do not enjoy these advantages, must gain by commerce with those which do; because the exchanges of commerce are between _labor and labor_; subtraction being made of all the natural advantages which are combined with these labors; and it is evidently the most favored countries which can incorporate into a given labor the largest proportion of these _natural advantages_. ❋ Fr��d��ric Bastiat (1825)

We learn that these (to the repression and extinction of that spirit of arrogance and self-importance, so natural to the heart of man) it should be our habitual care to cherish and cultivate; studiously maintaining a continual sense, that, not only for all the _natural_ advantages over others which we may possess, but that for all our _moral_ superiority also, we are altogether indebted to the unmerited goodness of God. ❋ William Wilberforce (1796)

Providence; and natural events are the individual instances of it; but it does not follow, either that events which to us seem irregular, are therefore uninfluenced by the same Agent, or that the addition of the word _mere_ to the word _natural_, can signify any thing else than the presumption of him, who chuses to exercise his right of private judgment in using it, to exclude entirely the consideration of a Providence. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

He justifies this view by an appeal to an empiricist version of a natural law argument, writing of the existence of ˜natural rights™ based on the way that human beings are constituted, mentally or physically; to attempt to alter or limit human life in certain ways is to block the desires, goals, aspirations inherent in being human as we know it (1996, 73 “ 4). ❋ Cherniss, Joshua (2008)

From this difference in terminology has grown up the custom of using the H (now made [natural]) to show that _any_ staff-degree is in _natural_ condition, _i. e._, not sharped or flatted.] [Illustration: Fig. 11.] 22. ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)

It is no cause for wonder that mathematical thinking should lead to such a result; for Man is a _natural_ being, man’s mind is a _natural agency_, and the results of rigorous thinking, far from being artificial fictions, are natural facts — natural revelations of natural law. ❋ Alfred Korzybski (1914)

It was used to serve a temporary purpose, and as soon as that purpose was served, it was thrown aside, although it had been described as "so natural, so easy, and so plausible, that it invites one to admit it," as "too _natural_, too _rigid_, and too ❋ James Buchanan (1837)

WARBURTON.] _Native_ is here not natural birth, but _natural parent_, or _cause of birth_. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Each stroke of the airbrush contributes to turning the term 'natural beauty' into an oxymoron. ❋ Marissa Lepor (2011)

I am not a big fan of the term "natural childbirth." ❋ Toni Nagy (2011)

1. "I tried to set John up with [my wife's] best friend for the weekend, but he said, he plans to try to meet some [naturals] this Friday at the club instead." 2. Jane basically needs two references before she'll [go on a date] with a guy anymore - she's still not over the time that natural tried to ATM her - ❋ ShepAKS (2014)

I ran my comb through my natural, threw on my 8-ball jacket, and [sat out] on [the stoop] watching the cars [roll by]. ❋ Stop It Loser (2009)

"We the big [dogs out] here, but we still [act natural]." "My homie [blowin' up] and gettin' mad money, but he still act natural." ❋ Slugdog Millionaire (2013)

i wish more [blacks] would go natural and [reconize] their [true beauty], without eroupeon infulences. ❋ Charmain (2003)

the [shooter] rolled a natural so [we won] our pass [bets] ❋ Jenfucius (2005)

we had natural [sex], it was really [hot] ([no condom]) ❋ Tomdeve (2011)

Lost Temple is so [imba]. A human can have [level 2] and [expand] his natural within the first 3 minutes of the game. ❋ Werx (2005)

❋ The Wraith (2003)

Without respecting our [environment] and [nature] the world will not be able to [function]. ❋ Dylan Abbey (2005)

This [vast] [forest] is so [naturous]. Beautiful! ❋ Mr. Zenfu (2019)