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• The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Wise, Art, Eye

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• I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Nature, Opinion

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• If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Intelligent

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• That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something...real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. "Real love, real friends, real body parts...

  Jess C Scott

  Life, Real, Reflection

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)”, p.66, Jess C Scott

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• Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Lying, Unique, Men

  Ruth Nanda Anshen (1971). “Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function”, Associated Faculty PressInc

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• French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

  Christian Lacroix

  Design, Modernism

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• Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Light, Color, Drains

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• No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

  Agnes Smedley

  Men, Today, Provinces

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• The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

  Edward H. Levi

  Frustration, Intellectual, Events

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

  Jonathan Demme

  Cutting, Long, Trying

  "Jonathan Demme Discusses 'Journeys' & The Magic Of Neil Young" by Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. June 26, 2012.

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• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  Adam Gopnik

  Secret, Quality, Littles

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• I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

  Beano Cook

  Hate, Science, Hair

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• Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.

  Tobias Lindholm

  Writing, Middle, Hardest

  Source: collider.com

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• Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Example, Kidneys, Matching

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Real, Teaching

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• One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Two, Church Today

  Vance Havner (1967). “Living in Kingdom Come”

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• V-Day...if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for "your loved one" I think it's quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It's all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

  Jess C Scott

  Relationship, Sex, Real

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.48, jessINK

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• People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

  Alexander Herzen

  Dream, Sleep, People

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• When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Plato, Real, Ideas

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• We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

  Dalai Lama

  Understanding, Desire, Want

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• When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

  Steve Jobs

  Cancer, Sadness, Feelings

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• I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.

  Rachel Carson

  Spiritual, Believe, Science

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Passion, Player

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• Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.

  Albert Howard

  Men, Animal, Land

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• Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.

  James P. Hogan

  Humorous, Mean, Design

  James P. Hogan (2007). “The Two Worlds”, p.129, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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