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• Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

  Charlie Brooker

  Destiny, Numbers, Letters

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.220, Faber & Faber

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• To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Pyramids, Privilege, Imaginary

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2016

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• Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact, you can wear it in the most bitter weather or in the hottest heat. Polar fleece looks neither flimsy and light nor hearty and warm. It has no historical, cultural, or physical association with a place, a season, a society, or any living thing. It is the first existential fabric - eminentaly useful, meaningless, dissociated and weird.

  Mary Ruefle

  Weather, Light, Historical

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.60, Wave Books

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• One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Way, Emotion, Certainty

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• There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities. People there are educated to see the best there is and will stand for only the best. High-class baseball cannot be played at night under artificial light.

  Clark Griffith

  Baseball, Night, Class

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• So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentaliz ation is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Cutting, Order

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, Basic Books

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• Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

  Marianne Moore

  Art, Thinking

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Men, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.356, CUP Archive

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• What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

  George Eliot

  Tragedy, Needs, Gone

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.101

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• There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

  Joseph Addison

  Humanity, World, Bears

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.322

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• Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

  Robert Breault

  Honesty, Men, Giving

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• Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

  Wallace Stevens

  Perception, Mind, Essentials

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.246, Vintage

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• Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Lonely, Writing, Men

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• Indifference creates an artificial peace.

  Mason Cooley

  Apathy, Indifference

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• The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Numbers, Land

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• As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Technology, Doctors

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• The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Bridges, Numbers

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• Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Passion, Moments, Natural

  Maria Edgeworth (1811). “Almeria; a Tale of fashionable life”, p.29

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• Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

  Nelson Mandela

  Color, Racism, Political

  "Nelson Mandela’s Epitaph, in His Own Words" by Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2013.

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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

  Mistake, Culture, Institutions

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

  Nadya Suleman

  Years, Trying, Seven

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both are artificial forms. Both start off in one direction and then, with a twist of the concluding couplet/surprising ending, both reveal that they were headed somewhere different all the time.

  Margaret Maron

  Writing, Thinking, One Direction

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