#artificial

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#covers #ends #equivalent #good #habitual

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

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#born #hallucination #kings #made

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#california #country #like #limb #me

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#artificial #because #being #comic #feel

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#artificial #attached #banks #been #both

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop. ↗

— David Eagleman

#evolution #science #intelligence

He said he didn’t think Lenore should go to the G.O.D. "Nobody ever finds anybody in a place like that," he said, "People don’t go to a place like that to look for other people. That’s the opposite of the whole concept that’s behind the thing. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#desert #religion #religion

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

#attain #been #could #disproportionate #gravity

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