#artificial

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ↗

— Andre Gide

#annoys #artificial #bores #constructs #eludes

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#artificially #bred #country #economy #fear

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#artificially #bred #country #economy #fear

I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat! ↗

— Danica McKellar

#been #being #eating #flour #healthy

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#artificial #exist #invest #lives #media

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice. ↗

— Russell Banks

#could #grows #having #hear #her

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#completion #contrive #endings #i #like

The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#america #artificial #begin #best #best way

Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ... ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#intelligence