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Imaginative creativity is the gene for a thing to be an artwork. Without such a gene, a thing can be anything but an artwork.

It may or may not turn out to be anything but sitting at home worrying about it isn't going to help.

"It cannot be anything but a volcano in a state of eruption" , said he.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Jack Dorsey: Absolutely. Money is a concept that's been with us for 5, 000 years, and it's never been designed to be anything but a burden.

The name can be anything, but it's a good idea to give it the name of the mediation handler class (without the package).

And with an attitude like that, it's hard to be anything but positive.

The transition to open societies in states accustomed to decades of repression cannot be anything but chaotic.

No one orders a hot chocolate and expects it to be anything but a dessert-like beverage.

The result of this unfortunate situation is that the so-called open system is quickly revealing itself to be anything but.

The philosophical question to ask is: how can rights discourse be anything but political?

Yesterday's English examination looked simple, but it turned out to be anything but easy.

While I can sympathize with this feeling, I don't see any good reason to be anything but truthful with your doctor.

But after a decade of politics and design-by-committee, the LCS has turned out to be anything but small, cheap and numerous.

The file that was specified as a target is a directory and the caller specified that it could be anything but a directory.

In the end, the American and Chinese economies are already too interconnected for a trade war to be anything but lose-lose.

It is hard to imagine that there would be anything but giblets left if those two now fell into the hands of their people.

Data, in our experience, tends to be anything but uniform.

Yet the former general with a PhD in agricultural economics appears to be anything but worried.

There is too much torment, renunciation, and anxiety in this love for it to be anything but infinite forbearance.

We were too happy and too poor to be anything but proud of our new home.

This name can be anything, but should be a unique and descriptive topic name.

What they actually do can be anything, but often it is reasonable to use double-underscore versions of names for the attributes.

But the notion that technology would pave the way to greater privacy has turned out to be anything but true.

It looks too far-fetched to be anything but a child's toy.

"It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross" (Thomas H. Huxley).

Many older Americans find the "golden years" to be anything but golden.

Clearly, the wisdom of the masses has proved to be anything but.

I thought this machine would never be anything but a toy.

Joy: Don't worry. It's against your nature to be anything but considerate .

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

If you have such a person to share all your joys and sorrows, to know all your strengths and weaknesses, how can you be anything but happy?

The great bulk of necessary work can never be anything but painful .

The middle two characters can be anything, but there can be only two of them.

It's also a sign that Earth-like planets elsewhere in the galaxy may be anything but rare.

Treat people with respect. Be anything but arrogant. Nothing turns people off quicker than arrogance and aloofness.

You keep saying that until you can't be anything but a spacer.

A weeklong trip to the Bahamas sounds fun, but coming back to no job will be anything but.

Swedish architecture firm Jagnafalt Milton thinks the city of the future should be anything but permanent.

However, if our continuing abuse of resources continues at this rate unchecked, we can be anything but optimistic about our species' future.

Life is too short to be anything but happy.

If you are to function within this paradigm how can your creations be anything but balanced?

All is calm? Christmas can be anything but calm!

However, from the boy's perspective, how could they be anything but the true reality of the situation?

Loading the prisoners onto planes will be easy. Figuring out what to do with them next will be anything but.

Venues can be anything, but are typically restaurants, bars, stores, and so on.

In a childlike state, how can you be anything but creative?

The shifts, however, will be anything but uniform.

But those who know what it means to be Man long to be anything but.

And I don't see how you could ever be anything but mine

because you ' ll never be anything but a common frump

All too recent to be anything but sensitive

I'd rather be anything but ordinary please#

we will never be never be anything but loud