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“It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.”

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Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.”

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Author:F. Huegel

“We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.”

Ifs Years Ideas Hard Feelings Might Guy Natural Evolution Sight Ghost Sensitive Suspects Bus Predator Uneasy Perfectly Natural Bus Stops Uneasy Feelings

Author:Seth Shostak

“I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.”

Thinking Natural Position Following Urges Unusual Perfectly Natural

Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.”

Knows Giving Today Order Heaven Natural Atheism Ought Evolution Amount Terrible Fingers Explanation Disorder Catastrophe Distinguished Astronomers Perfectly Natural

Book:The Story of Religious Controversy

Source: The Story of Religious Controversy

“Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.”

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Author:R. D. Laing

“About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes”

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Author:Steve Yegge

“It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.”

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Book:The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.”

Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

“A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.”

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Author:Bill Nighy

“Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.”

Writing Sometimes Sound Natural Talking Keys Singing Difficulty Harmony Notes Odd Melody Perfectly Natural

Author:Elvis Costello