#artificial

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#artificially #baby #feel #i #i think

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. ↗

— Alan Kay

#artificial #artificial intelligence #complex #every #every time

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial. ↗

— Bert Williams

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Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind. ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#atheism #augmented-reality #inspirational-life #posthumanism #transcendentalism

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#design #except #exists #french #hardly

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#demille #difference #his #marriage #mr

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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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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