White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions
Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.
Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.
Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being?
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.
Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
This does not come naturally. I have to work out 60 to 90 minutes at least five days a week and stick to a high- fiber, low-calorie eating plan.
Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
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