Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
Jean-Michel Jarre
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DON SCHONHARDT It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
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MARK TWAIN This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme ...
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JEFF HENLEY Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Chef Michel Richard is always at the top of his game.
JOSE ANDRES Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
CAROLINA HERRERA Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it do...
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RENE RICARD It's close to rap, but it doesn't always rhyme.
JASON BRAUN Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The apple does not fall far from the tree
PROVERB That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the bigges...
MIGUEL RUIZ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude,...
ANONYMOUS 'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried t...
ROBERT KAZINSKY Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional ha...
ISSEY MIYAKE Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
THOMAS SOWELL Madame Jean is not a sovereigntist,
JEAN LAPIERRE Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities pre...
MORGAN HOUSEL Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism.
KEVIN MICHEL It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me alwa...
ENRICO CARUSO I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...
CAT STEVENS I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...
YUSUF ISLAM Reality is not far away from disillusionment. Strive sensibly to get disillusioned before further ti...
CHANDRABABU V.S. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are cer...
ALBERT EINSTEIN As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are cer...
ALBERT EINSTEIN As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are cer...
ALBERT EINSTEIN As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are ce...
MAX WILHELM DEHN “A man does not wander far from where his corn is roasting.”
ESAN MAGAZINE It does not matter how long it takes to reach the goal. With persistent focus, commitment and enthus...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
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ATSUTOSHI NISHIDA Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I've always tried to be involved with new technology and how it is involved in communication.
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ROBERT WINSTON Until I have learned how to express myself as a human, I will not consider speaking as a god.
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LES BROWN One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important t...
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ELISABETH ELLIOT Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from
designs by Michel Angelo!
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with other men's wisdom.
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happened.
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MICHEL FOUCAULT When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push ...
MICHEL GONDRY For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it ...
MICHEL ONFRAY A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury ...
MICHEL FABER That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking c...
MICHEL GONDRY By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which h...
MICHEL FABER Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find...
MICHEL ONFRAY All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that...
MICHEL GONDRY My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his pro...
MICHEL FABER I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The mo...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from m...
MICHEL FABER Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that sa...
MICHEL FABER I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - ...
MICHEL FABER We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-wo...
MICHEL FOUCAULT I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Bro...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director....
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications an...
MICHEL SABBAH A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape.
MICHEL SABBAH