![The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]](images/quote-images-gq/m/mitchell-the-south-produced-statesmen-and-soldiers-planters.webp)
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
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'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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Abigail, do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative action program that produced Colin Powell? Yes or no? Yes or no?
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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
Atlas Shrugged (1957) -
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
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Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
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Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
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Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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