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• As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

  Otto Wallach

  Molecules, Tasks, Substance

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• Just because food is served fast doesn't mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors.

  Steve Ells

  Mean, Color, Flavor

  "Chipotle to Stop Using Genetically Altered Ingredients" by Stephanie Strom, www.nytimes.com. April 25, 2015.

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• There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Jobs, Community, Design

  "Are robots hurting job growth?". "March of the Machines" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. January 13, 2013.

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• The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Mind, Intellectual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.76, Psychology Press

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• The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Plato, Order

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't know that I'm beautiful or glamorous. I'm a pretty artificial looking person. I sure am flattered when people think I'm beautiful, but I think I'm leaning towards more cartoonish than beautiful. But I'm comfortable with who I am. And since I wasn't born as a natural beauty, I just make the most of what I've got.

  Dolly Parton

  Beautiful, Thinking, Who I Am

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• The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Revolutionary, Invention, Century

  George Bernard Shaw (1960). “Shaw, Plays by George Bernard”, Signet Classics

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• I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.

  Carolyn Wells

  Fashion, Hate, Home

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

  George Washington

  Ties, Europe, Causes

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.11

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• The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

  Xunzi

  Men, Evil, Human Nature

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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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• 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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• Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.

  David Hume

  Law, Justice, Good Man

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.984, David Hume

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• As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and relationship conflicts.

  Michael J Cohen

  Real, Fall, Intelligent

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.84, Trafford Publishing

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• The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stars, Taken, Sunset

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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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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• 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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• He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

  Horace

  Sea, Names, Wings

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 387-88, Carmina, IV, 2, 1, 1922.

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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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