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• Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles. Others talk about stories that are "plot-driven," as if the plot were neither the highway nor the automobile, but the chauffeur. Others seem to have plot phobia and say they never plot. Still others turn up their noses at the very notion, as if there's something artificial, fraudulent, contrived.

  James N. Frey

  Character, Writing, Interesting

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• I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Thinking, Serious, Actors

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• Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

  Marvin Minsky

  Men, Machines, Done

  "Reflections on Artificial Intelligence". Book by Blay Whitby, 1996.

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• There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

  Albert Camus

  Creating, Talent, Produce

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real.

  Gaspar Noe

  Strong, Real, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us with a second. If we want to discover generalizations about evolving systems, we will have to look at artificial ones.

  John Maynard Smith

  Waiting, Want, Able

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• Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

  Alan Kay

  Artificial Intelligence, Know How, Knows

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• Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

  Josiah Warren

  Mistake, Firsts, Combination

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• Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Mistake, Quality, Looks

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• Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

  Peter Ustinov

  Beautiful, Eyelashes, Vacuums

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• The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Garden, Views

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.255

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• I ordered a soda - caffeine-free, low sodium, no artificial flavors. They brought me a glass of water.

  Robert E. Murray

  Glasses, Water, Sodium

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• Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Political Opinions, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.137, Algora Publishing

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• A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Fall, Age

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• The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is ... both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Character, Past

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• Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Computer, Mindset

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• Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Pain, Mean, Attention

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.24, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Girl, Song, Teaching

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• I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Passion, Justice, Boring

  "The talented Ms Highsmith", www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2000.

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• Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Delight, Drink, Without Music

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• The number of the fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It is therefore decidedly a great feat to add to their number, and to set distinctly before the eyes other stars in myriads, which have never been seen before, and which surpass the old, previously known stars in number more than ten times.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Eye, Numbers

  "The Essential Galileo".

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• [Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feelings, Humanity, Language

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• Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, People, Mind

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.369, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

  Humphry Davy

  Mean, Men, Intellectual

  Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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• It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.

  David Cage

  Games, Play, Skills

  "No 'game over' in Beyond: Two Souls, but Jodi can die" by Jessica Conditt, www.engadget.com. August 22, 2013.

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