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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.


Jean Baudrillard

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JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR