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"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine." »Marilyn Monroe
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"You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power, and beauty." »Eric Hoffer
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"Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons." »Josh Sugarmann
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"Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does." »Henri Poincare
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"If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary." »Ayn Rand
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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." »Elbert Hubbard
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"The only real power comes out of a long rifle." »Joseph Stalin
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"The National rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world." »Cecil Andrus
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"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back." »Meg Cabot
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"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority." »Brendan Francis
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"To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self" »Christa Wolf
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"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"Deus ex machina A god from the machine" »Menander
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"Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]" »Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
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"Humour is a cog in the machine we call love." »Aaron J. Munzer
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"[Television is] the triumph of machine over people." »Fred Allen
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"Television is the triumph of machine over people." »Fred Allen
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"To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine." »Browning
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." »James Nicoll
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"Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine." »Henry David Thoreau
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"... information can be treated like any other quantity and be subjected to the manipulation of a machine." »Stan Aogartem
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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." »Matt Groening
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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." »Matt Groening
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"No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding." »Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
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"The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways." »Bertrand Russell
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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping." »Orville Wright
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"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave." »George Gurdjieff
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"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk
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"In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras." »Tom Nolan
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