Unnatural Quotes - Page 4

• ...Any such unnatural union as the mingling of an exclusive system, such as homeopathy, with scientific medicine in a school,...(will) render every school adopting such a policy unworthy of support of the profession.

  Harris L Coulter

  School, Dark, Medicine

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• It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they begin to feel this way is to ignore the voice that is telling them to stop and listen.

  Bob Buford

  Mistake, Voice, People

  Bob Buford (1994). “Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance”, p.65, Zondervan

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• If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first
  century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides
  telescopes are unnatural.

  Timothy Leary

  Spiritual, Religious, Eye

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Thinking, Discipline

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• War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

  Anthony Marra

  War, People, Causes

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• There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

  William Booth

  Mother, Elephants, Tree

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• If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish.

  Philip Sidney

  Yield, Sensual, Weakness

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• ... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

  Lucy Freeman

  Way, Violence, Enough

  Lucy Freeman (1955). “"Before I Kill More ..."”

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• Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Done, Misery

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• 1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

  Aristotle

  Definitions, Natural, Prime

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• Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Damage, Desks

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.125, Random House

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• You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, America, Self

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.

  Andres Serrano

  Thinking, Certainty In Life, Normal

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• Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

  Amber Rose

  Homosexuality, Found, Species

  Twitter post from May 6, 2012

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• As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

  John Francis Daley

  Real, Light, Often Is

  "Exclusive: Screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein Talk HORRIBLE BOSSES, BURT WONDERSTONE, OF ALL THE THINGS, VACATION Reboot, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Envy, May

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.8, Routledge

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• Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life Is, Natural, Human Life

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• Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. All such deviations from normal, proper heterosexual relationships are not merely unnatural but wrong in the sight of God.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Past, Sight, Temptation

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• Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

  William Wycherley

  Drinking, Ems, Scolding

  William Wycherley (2014). “The Country Wife”, p.59, A&C Black

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• Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

  Darcey Bussell

  Years, Ballet, Body

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• The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

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• Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Mind, Natural

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• I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

  Letta Mbulu

  People, Forever, Cracks

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our brains because we were going to write everything down and not have to remember anything, and so it would atrophy our brains. So there has always been this human drive on the one hand to create tools, to create technologies to overcome our boundaries, but then there is always this reservation, and this fear that say these technologies are somehow unnatural and it is against nature to partake in them.

  Jason Silva

  Writing, Technology, Hands

  Source: alejandrotrojas.com

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