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• With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.

  Kingsley Amis

  Thinking, Fiction, Use

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• The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

  Henry Ford

  Government, Law, People

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.6, 谷月社

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• A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature a good bit, of course, but a bit only in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.

  Walter Bagehot

  Religious, Intellectual, Moral

  Walter Bagehot (1950). “Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browni”

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• Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

  William Shakespeare

  Secret, Mind, Deeds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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• Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

  Norman Cousins

  Death, People, Dying

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• Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

  Quentin Crisp

  Marriage, Swans, Want

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• Exercise is an unnatural act.

  Peter De Vries

  Exercise

  Peter De Vries (1982). “Forever panting”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help but walk in and feel like you're trying to prove yourself to people. And you should just walk in and be.

  Sharni Vinson

  People, Trying, Auditions

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• Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Strong, Men, Expression

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Leadership, Women, Vanity

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• Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

  Bertrand Russell

  Nature, Civilization, Openness

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.64, Routledge

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• Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Remarkable, Comment, Contrary

  Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.47, Penguin Books India

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• Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot.

  Tillie Olsen

  Lying, Struggle, Writing

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• I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, People, Soul

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• Marijuana grows naturally...Don't you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don't know, unnatural?

  Bill Hicks

  Marijuana, Thinking, Law

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• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Independent, Men, Organization

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• I want to perform an unnatural act.

  Lenny Bruce

  Want

  "Fictional character: The Lone Ranger". "Thank You Mask Man", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• I've always felt that when you use too many products or try too many new things, you're just piling a lot of unnatural, unnecessary stress on your face. I try to keep it simple.

  Amber Rose

  Stress, Simple, Trying

  "Amber Rose's Singular Look" by Johanna Cox, www.elle.com. November 25, 2009.

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• In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Wall, Views

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• War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Peace, Real, War

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• In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Red, Revolution, Socialism

  Speech in Potsdam on October 13, 1926. "Heinrich Himmler: A Life", Book by Peter Longerich, pp. 92-93, 2012.

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• In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

  Aristotle

  Two, Evil, Soul

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Waiting, Missing

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• A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

  John Dryden

  Character, Farce, Action

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• A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

  Robert Southey

  Marriage, Men, Thinking

  Robert Southey (1856). “Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey”, p.258

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