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• In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Gay, Names

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 28, 2010

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• Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

  Carl Icahn

  Money, People, Entrepreneur

  "Carl Icahn buys stake in Botox-maker Allergan", www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2016.

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• If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

  Angelina Jolie

  Self, Becoming, Danger

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• Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.

  Larry Tesler

  Done, Artificial Intelligence

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• Light and color are closely linked. The colors can make a crucial change in nature, if you switch from daylight to artificial light or just from strong to weak illumination. In addition, color perception is affected by the material structure. Even if a piece of textile can have the same color as a shiny enamel plate, then they will act completely different.

  Verner Panton

  Strong, Light, Illumination

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• The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Development, Ends

  "Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind" by Rory Cellan-Jones, www.bbc.com. December 2, 2014.

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• Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

  Alexandre Vinet

  Way, Causes, Slave

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• Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Healthy

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• O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

  Izaak Walton

  Art, Fishing, Doubt

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28

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• I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Should Have, Iraq

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• We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Moving, Fall

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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

  Sea, Gravity, Trifles

  William Allingham (1907). “William Allingham: a diary”

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• I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

  Vera Nazarian

  Oasis, Roots, East

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

  Laozi

  Math, Doe, Needs

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• We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Suffering, Modern

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Believe, Profound

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• I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Women, Thinking

  H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, James Turner (1976). “Selected Letters 1934-1937”, Arkham House Publishers

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• If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Thinking, Fjords

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.195, Bantam

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• As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Memories, Writing, Past

  "Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1931.

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• Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Adversity, Guy

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• Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

  Edmund Burke

  Pride, Thinking, Order

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

  John Quincy Adams

  Law, Justice, Logic

  "Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848". Book by John Quincy Adams, 1875.

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• There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Death, Ends

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

  Justin Kaplan

  Memorable, Computer, Said

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• With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

  Elon Musk

  Demon, Artificial Intelligence, Summoning

  "Elon Musk says ‘we are summoning the demon’ with artificial intelligence", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2014.

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