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• I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Nicholas Stoller Talks 'Five-Year Engagement', Terrible Rom-Coms & 'Muppets 2'". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake.

  Christa Faust

  Lakes, Kind, Environment

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• In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Country, Creativity, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Real, People, Suffering

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Character, Men

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• Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

  David Daiches

  Men, Light, Literature

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• I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

  Dolly Parton

  Real, Thinking, Magic

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• In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Tools, Helping, Artificial Intelligence

  K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of Creation”, Anchor Books

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• Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Bears

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• The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

  John Quincy Adams

  Law, Arbitrary, Use

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• While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Stories, Natural, Method

  Henry Seidel Canby (1902). “The Short Story”

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• Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.

  Colin Angle

  Names, Ideas, Brain

  "iRobot Cracked Open A Huge Market By Ignoring Everything People Thought About Robots". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.

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• Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys or a bunch of ladies, there's something interesting about that.

  David Ayer

  Interesting, Guy, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.

  Daniel Dennett

  Winning, Cheesy, Consciousness

  Daniel Clement Dennett (1998). “Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds”, p.158, MIT Press

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• Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

  Laozi

  Simple, Men, Way

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.91, Jain Publishing Company

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• Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.

  John Lukacs

  Writing, Two, Everyday

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• Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

  Benjamin Graham

  Long, Prejudice, May

  Benjamin Graham, David Le Fevre Dodd (1934). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, "we've never had a democrat in the family before".

  Emo Philips

  Heart, Grandmother, Doctors

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• My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick disgusting ravishing overbaked blood-spurting artificial frame of it. A tad hypocritical? Yes. But sometimes you think, Well, I'll just go to hell.

  David Edelstein

  Thinking, Blood, Sin City

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• [Socialists claim] that we reject fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association; and they brand us with the name of individualists. We can assure them that what we repudiate is not natural organization, but forced organization. It is not free association, but the forms of association that they would impose upon us. It is not spontaneous fraternity, but legal fraternity. It is not providential solidarity, but artificial solidarity, which is only an unjust displacement of responsibility. Socialism . . . confounds Government and society.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Responsibility, Government, Names

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• Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price. However, all the artificial flavors and artificial ingredients in some of their products are unacceptable. And it's designed so you can eat fast so you get back to work more quickly. Not good.

  Eric Ripert

  Numbers, People, Evil

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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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• A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.

  Tom Robbins

  Gun, Natural, Shots

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.239, Bantam

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• The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

  Terry Winograd

  Mind, Technique, Social

  "Thinking Machines: Can there be? Are we?". Book by Terry Winograd, 1990.

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Computer, Mindset

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