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How to use the word natures in a Sentence?

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I think I have two souls, one is playful, ironic, with a sense of humor. The other is in contact with the dramatic face of life and human problems around the world. The two natures live in me and never abandon me. My films might reflect this personality unconsciously.

Lina Wertmüller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s really tough to reach out to these kids and help because of their itinerant natures, you might only get a few hours -- or even only a few minutes -- to work with these kids.

Mark Horvath

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

A sharp moon was fighting with the flying rags and tatters of a storm, and Valentin regarded it with a wistfulness unusual in such scientific natures as his.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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5 years ago

It was pretty scary, pretty surreal, i thought it was doing some sort of stunt or something along those natures. It seemed like an airshow at that close and that low a level.

Ben Goldberg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Philip Sidney

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9 years ago

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Nicolas Chamfort

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9 years ago

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Carl Jung

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10 years ago

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Peggy Noonan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

George Eliot

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10 years ago

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

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10 years ago

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Livy

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12 years ago

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

Ingrid Bengis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

Confucius

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14 years ago

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

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14 years ago

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.

I Ching

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14 years ago

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Peggy Noonan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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