"The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard,……" — Mark Twain

More Artificiality Quotes

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• Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead
• Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual… — John Dewey
• Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. — Lionel Barrymore
• Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever… — Mark Twain
• It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush
• For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and… — Isamu Noguchi
• I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
• There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework… — Jacque Fresco
• There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has… — Robert A. Heinlein
• I want to keep developing. I want to become relaxed in my own work and go deeper. Just growing and… — Gale Harold
• New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted… — Ernest Gruening
• A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not… — Cyril Connolly

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