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“Availability of the best also is limited in our culture. And it's also extremely expensive. It's ridiculous. A kilogram of rose oil costs me very much. By the time it is shipped here and we pay tariffs, how much more do I have to charge the consumer? And then who could afford to buy it? That is why people sell synthetic rose and end up poisoning themselves. It shouldn't be that way.”

People Way Ends Culture Pay Cost Sells Rose Oil Ridiculous Consumers Expensive Poisoning Availability Synthetic Tariffs

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

“Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.”

Made Real Stuff Danger Eating Offended Chips Potatoes Real Things Synthetic Potato Chips

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003

“The amalgam of psychological attitudes we form is the synthetic complex. It may fall apart quite quickly as further reflection or further experience bears on it, and we may revert to our former judgments, feelings and tendencies.”

May Feelings Form Fall Attitude Bears Judgment Reflection Complexes Tendencies Psychological Former Falling Apart Synthetic

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Sometimes, however, the new synthetic complex proves stable, and even serves as the beginning of a much larger cluster of attitudes that displace some we've previously considered to be fixed parts of ourselves.”

Sometimes Attitude Prove Complexes Fixed Stable Synthetic Clusters

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our arguments can then begin. It does so by introducing new synthetic complexes, which we then reflect on from various points of view. When the complexes survive and grow, that initial showing has been philosophically decisive.”

Doe Has Beens Philosophy Literature Grows Views Perspective Argument Complexes Including Various Valuable Point Of View Introducing Initials Synthetic New Perspective Introducing New

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies, but their effects are transitory: the new synthetic complex quickly falls apart. Proust's characters, by contrast, often achieve lasting changes of perspective.”

Way Humans Character Fall Records Achieve Effects Perspective Complexes Lasting Transformed Contrast Portraits Falling Apart Epiphany Transitory Joyce Synthetic Proust Lasting Change

Author:Philip Kitcher

“The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death is another such moment. It would be interesting to explore Proust's great novel from the perspective of seeing how stable synthetic complexes are formed and modified.”

Moments Would Be Interesting Novel Seeing Perspective Complexes Reaching Grandmother Boots Stable Finality Narrators Synthetic Proust Great Novels

Author:Philip Kitcher

“In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.”

Philosophy Views Ought Notion Analytics Synthetic

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.”

Knows Different Perspective Ought Philosopher Different Things Aspire Synthetic

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I think a lot people get caught up with the synthetic quality of electronic music, but me, I've always been more interested in all those more natural sounds, in organic electricity. That's something that I want to continue to work with.”

People Thinking Want Sound Natural Quality Caught Electricity Caught Up Electronic Music Synthetic

Author:Patrick Wolf

“We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. Let me explain. I teach the synthetic theory known as the neo-Darwinian one, for one reason only; not because it's good, we know that it is bad, but because there isn't any other. Whilst waiting to find something better you are taught something which is known to be inexact.”

Knows Years Reason Waiting Known Accepting Teach Students Taught Theory Evolution Let Me Acceptable Something Better Present Time Theory Of Evolution Synthetic

Author:Jerome Lejeune

“Synthesis..., perhaps in greater measure than activities in any other area of organic chemistry, provides a measure of the condition and power of science. For synthetic undertakings are seldom if ever undertaken by chance, nor will the most painstaking, or inspired, purely observational activities suffice. Synthesis must always be carried out by plan.”

Ifs Chance Greater Plans Conditions Activity Areas Inspired Chemistry Undertakings Synthesis Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Author:Robert Burns Woodward

“CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean hydrocarbons, such as synthetic gasoline. We can use CO2 to desalinate water, enhance the production of vegetables and fruit in greenhouses, carbonate our beverages and produce biofertilizers that enhance the productivity of the soil without poisoning it. Carbon negative technology is absolutely needed now.”

“I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly be produced in factories through synthetic processes, cell cultures, and so on.”

People Thinking Stills Culture Process Middle Century Eating Cells Meat Factories Synthetic Eating Meat

Author:Dale Jamieson

“What happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the `90s, "the personal is political, the political is personal"? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.”

Knows Made Real Bigs Political Used Choices Know How Happened Instruments Versus Big Things Synthetic

Author:Dar Williams

“I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.”

People Thinking Kind Issues Benefits All Kinds Biology Organs Printing Robotics Replacements Mobility Synthetic

Author:Jason Silva

“I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of these do it yourself biosynthetic labs where people are going to be playing with the software of life. We are going to have a new generation of artists that are going to be playing with genomes the way that Blake and Byron used to play with poetry. And when genomes are the new canvas for the artist, we might be able to radically upgrade the human species and the software of the biology of the human species.”

“I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.”

Mind Believe Humans Problem Fantasy Effects Produce Evolution Machines Arguing Human Mind Rays Electric Maintaining Singularity Grids Human Evolution Synthetic

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“Thomas Edison had great visions (for lights, music players, movies, etc.) but he knew they didn't count until he could make them work. His statement that creativity is 99% perspiration makes that point. Consider how much time he spent trying to make a synthetic rubber material for tires and never stopped trying but he never succeeded.”

Trying Light Vision Creativity Player Materials Statements Etc Tire Rubber Synthetic Great Vision Perspiration

Author:Philip Kotler

“There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.”

Culture Fun Becoming Humorous Skins Plastic Vinyl Synthetic Leopards Snow Leopards

Author:Lily Tomlin

“If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.”

Ifs Men Natural Numbers Succeed Prison Intention Operations Seals Synthetic

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.”

Ifs Love You Synthetic

Book:Jenna Starborn

Source: Jenna Starborn

“Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.”

Should Age Young Mother Air Baby One Day Machines Breaths Noses Department This Day Remarks Clerks Knitting Synthetic Yarn Young Mother

Book:Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition

Source: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition

“what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.”

People Wells Ideas Today Goal Down And Bother Artificial Synthetic

Author:Tom Robbins

“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.”

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.”

Genuine Sympathy Synthetic

Book:Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.”

Law Technology Four Rate Biology Synthetic Moore's Law

Author:Stewart Brand

“In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.”

“The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness”

Inspirational Running Happiness Achievement Dedicated Synthetic

Author:Abdul Kalam

“Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant.”

Form Materials Judgment Constant Conception Propositions Rationalism Synthetic

Author:Max Horkheimer

“I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.”

Use Skins Poison Synthetic

Author:Gisele Bundchen

“In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.”

Reality Age Chance Emotion Encounters Reincarnation Synthetic

Author:Serge Daney

“My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.”

Persons Empathy Direct Core Indirect Synthetic

Book:Essays with a Purpose

Source: Essays with a Purpose

“"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.”

“We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.”

World Wells May Whole Faces Joy Spirit Spirituality Levels Lord Gone Higher Holy Lows Delight Favors Ghost Substitutes Incentives Holy Ghost Synthetic Plateaus

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me into bed.”

Feels Mind Stills Three Sleep Morning Worst Becoming Horror Bed Following Clock Afternoon Fog Poisonous Synthetic Lethargic

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.”

Knows Men Reality Age Night Dark Cities Sunshine Surround Electric Midnight Lamps Glare Neon Synthetic

Book:The American seasons

Source: The American seasons

“The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.”

Made Two Walks Blood Materials Type Shadow Phrases Valleys Rays Cop Bullets Carrier Synthetic Vests Bulletproof Shadow Of Death Torso Blood Type Bulletproof Vest Kevlar

Author:Edward Conlon

“The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Persons Belief Industry Conscience Years Ago Ancient Stores Selfish Department Vegetarian Shallow Fur Fiber Elitism Synthetic Department Stores Puke

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.”

Spirit Culture Pleasure Everyday Redemption Realms Betray Wholeness Glimpse Plight Aboriginal Humanness Synthetic Estrangement

Author:John Zerzan

“I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.”

May Numbers Havens Strange Red Stress Phones Posts Pairs Pants Stressed Synthetic Phone Numbers Satin

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. Deep in our bones resides an ancient singing couple who just won't give up making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them.”

Ifs World Giving Kind Ends Light Age Beautiful Spirit Dark Couple Giving Up Singing Ancient Bones Noise Lit Dark Ages Synthetic Won't Give Up

Author:Martin Prechtel

“Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.”

Men Trying Different Taken Circumstances Capture Portraits Different Times Snapshots Synthetic

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

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

Literature Natural Distinction Psychedelic Synthetic

Author:Stanislav Grof

“I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.”

Giving Dies Lost Doctors Balanced Symptoms Doing Nothing Hormones Synthetic

Author:Suzanne Somers

“If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is.”

“The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be used or even inspired by evil supernaturalism to foment destruction within the material world is for some people so exotic as to be inconceivable. Yet nothing should be more fundamentally clear, as students of”

People Men World Should Humans Ideas Used Evil Natural Technology Clear Students Materials Destruction Machines Inspired Dna Transforming Exotic Material World Synthetic

Author:Thomas Horn

“I am very pleased with my synthetic golf green from Southwest Greens. It reacts like a championship golf green, so I can practice my short game whenever I'm at home. I couldn't believe that a synthetic green could be this perfect.”

Believe I Can Home Games Perfect Practice Green Golf Championship Synthetic

Author:Matteo Manassero

“Mousse was a Labrador retriever, which is a large enthusiastic bulletproof species of dog made entirely from synthetic materials. This is the kind of dog that, if it takes an interest in your personal regions (which of course it does) you cannot fend it off with a blowtorch.”

Ifs Kind Doe Made Humor Funny Courses Interest Dog Materials Humorous Species Regions Enthusiastic Synthetic Bulletproof Retrievers Labradors

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

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