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intrinsic
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    It is one of the intrinsic limitations of being young, my dear, that you can never tell when a grand adventure has just begun.†  (source)
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    It would not be wrong to say that the idea of the intrinsic value of childhood dates from the Enlightenment.†  (source)
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    In her mind, American things—appliances, mouthwash, funny-looking upholstery—all seemed to have an intrinsic badness about them.†  (source)
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    The latter alternative means that their security has been violated by outsiders, but being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of their own governing philosophy.†  (source)
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    She thinks they are an intrinsically evil people, children of the devil.†  (source)
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    I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man; yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; so much ease in his demeanour; such a look of complete indifference to his own external appearance; so haughty a reliance on the power of other qualities, intrinsic or adventitious, to atone for the lack of mere personal attractiveness, that, in looking at him, one inevitably shared the indifference, and, even in a blind, imperfect sense, put faith in the confidence.†  (source)
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    Unless you're something intrinsically indecent and you don't care.†  (source)
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    At that epoch of pristine simplicity, however, matters of even slighter public interest, and of far less intrinsic weight than the welfare of Hester and her child, were strangely mixed up with the deliberations of legislators and acts of state.†  (source)
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    It was a kind of visual fatigue and it came, he knew, from the constant necessity of holding the prescient future as a kind of memory that was in itself a thing intrinsically of the past.†  (source)
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    ...In a story such as this, the name of the individual is intrinsic.†  (source)
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    Like most things that happened to Harold Crosby, his fall was more astonishing for its awkwardness than for anything intrinsically spectacular.†  (source)
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    One lie can be exposed, only to raise ten other questions intrinsic to that lie.†  (source)
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    There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act-a triumph of desire over sensibility.†  (source)
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