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• The artificial is always innocent.

  Frank O'Hara

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• I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They’re so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

  Mary-Louise Parker

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• All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

  Rupert Sheldrake

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  Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

  Thomas Merton

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Topics in Inspirational, Life, Movies

  Tags in Arrest, Artificial, Fixed, Hundred, Motion, Means, Year, Again, Aim, Later, Hold, Every, Artist, Since, Which, Stranger, Looks

• Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line – but that’s so artificial, that’s not how people really behave.

  Bruce Robinson

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• I’ve been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I’m being so incredibly strict… not a lot of meat!

  Danica McKellar

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• To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

  Frank Darabont

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• Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

  Gertrude Stein

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

  Thomas Carlyle Ford

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• It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

  Sean Parker

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• Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

  Roman Jakobson

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• Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

  William Irwin Thompson

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• I have been an “Official” all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

  William Allingham

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• To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

  Alex Campbell

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  Tags in Artificial, Conquer, Norms, Equivalents, Substitute, Barrier

• My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

  Jacques Delors

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• Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

  George Bernard Shaw

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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

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• All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

  Thomas Browne

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