Unnatural Quotes - Page 3

• There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Ignorance, Gaps, Strive

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• Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Attitude, Worry

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.

  Larry Kramer

  Beautiful, Gay, Normal

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• Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.

  Rajneesh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Catholic

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• He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Horse, Loss, Fire

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1840). “Georgia scenes: characters, incidents, in the first half century of the republic”, p.24

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• Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Venus Envy”, p.75, Bantam

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• If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence.

  Satoshi Kanazawa

  Ends, Existence, Familiar

  "The Intelligence Paradox". Book by Satoshi Kanazawa, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

  Neve Campbell

  Ballet, Different, Body

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 5, 2004.

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• Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

  Julia Child

  Mean, Fake, Cooking

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• I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Respect, Work, Mean

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.109, New Press, The

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• Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's methods and the killers' are ideally matched, equal in cunning and in ruthlessness. The screenplay, adapted by Clouzot and three other writers from a novel by the crack French crime-fiction team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, is a fantastically elaborate piece of contrivance, but the scrupulous realism of the direction makes the unnatural tale somehow feel entirely likely.

  Terrence Rafferty

  Team, Artist, Almost Perfect

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• A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

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• Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

  Jean Hugard

  Magic, Movement, Causes

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• [I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Running, Exercise, Science

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• When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into living a most unnatural life- a life that is self-blinding.. . without innovation. The world-wide issue for women is that under such conditions they are not only silenced, they are put to sleep. Their concerns, their viewpoints, their own truths are vaporized.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Sleep, Self, Issues

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• Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Creating, Use

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2681, Manonmani Publishers

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• Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no factual reason to suppose that what is natural is good (or at least better) and what is unnatural is bad (or at least worse).

  Julian Baggini

  Answers, Reason, Natural

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• Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

  Fred Melamed

  Running, Eight, Long

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• When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

  Tom Robbins

  Animal, Men, Psychics

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.76, Bantam

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• There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Law, Energy

  "The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975 (Design as a Principle in the Arts)". Book edited by Jean O'Grady and Eva Kushner, March 14, 2009.

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• Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Parent, Usury

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.32, Aristotle

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• For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

  Robert Briffault

  Marriage, Together, Males

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• Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Strange, Murder

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 27

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• No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions, and how far they are likely to influence their actions; and it is most unnatural and tyrannical to say, "as you think, so must you act. I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be your opinions."

  Charles James Fox

  Men, Thinking, Judging

  Charles-James Fox (1815). “The Speeches ... in the House of Commons”, p.2

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• Flesh and blood,
  You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
  Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-
  Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-
  Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,
  Unnatural though thou art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Strong, Brother

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.18

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