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• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

  Paul Muldoon

  Believe, Rhyming, Language

  Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

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• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Monogamy

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• To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Being In Love, Islands, Want

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Ideas, Landscape, Looks

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• Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.

  Alexander Herzen

  Strong, Men, Civilization

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• Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

  Warren E. Burger

  Justice, Guilt, Criminals

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• Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

  Samuel Johnson

  Fame, Ends

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.141

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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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• With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.

  Elon Musk

  Work Out, Water, Guy

  "Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat" by Samuel Gibbs, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2014.

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• Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

  Johannes Tauler

  Real, Humility, Judging

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• Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

  Astro Teller

  Machines, Artificial Intelligence

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• I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

  Alexander Stepanov

  Thinking, Hoaxes, Artificial Intelligence

  Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

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• Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

  Paul Brunton

  Taken, Abnormal, Hunger

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Meditation. The body”

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• When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Achievement, Beginners

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• Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed. Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that Robopocalypse is going to be a blockbuster. Once started I defy anyone to put it down.

  Jack Du Brul

  Character, Might, Unbearable

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• A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

  Jacques Santer

  Quota, Lasts, Periods

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• The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Fighting, Effort, Computer

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• All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.

  Todd English

  Numbers, Vegetables, Advice

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• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Blue, Sky, Humanity

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• Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Real, Believe

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• I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

  Terry Fox

  Broken Heart, Hurt, Sorry

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• Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Growth, Debt

  "EU near austerity limit, says Barroso" by Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

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• Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Ideas, Eugenics, Sound

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• Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Mean, Humble

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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