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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun."

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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
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"[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else."

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Roger Williams Theologian, Minister
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"The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things."

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"Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along."

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Olivia Wilde Actress, Producer, Director
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"Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?"

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent."

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