"Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of…" — Emily Dickinson

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• The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard
• I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity… — David Bowie
• We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science… — George Bernard Shaw
• Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is… — Sun Tzu
• There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune… — Sun Tzu
• Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. — Jackie Gleason
• I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength… — Henri Desgrange
• The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has… — Eugene Wigner
• When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style… — Bill Roorbach
• To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it… — Wallace Stevens
• Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and… — William Butler Yeats
• There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one… — Alexander Hamilton

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