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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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"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine." »Marilyn Monroe
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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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"Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer." »Thomas J. Watson
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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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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said 'Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,' and it must be so." »Native American
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"Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]" »Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
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"Deus ex machina A god from the machine" »Menander
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"To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine." »Browning
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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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"Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Batman You killed my parents. The Joker What What What are you talking about Batman I made you, you made me first. The Joker Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say I made you you gotta say you made me. How childish can you get" »Batman
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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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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"Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?" »Howard Zinn
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"Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." »Robert A. Heinlein
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