1.
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
Leon Kass
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It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
Nikola Tesla
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
Nikola Tesla
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
Sri Aurobindo
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My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
Dashiell Hammett
8.
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
Charles Stross
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How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
Antonio Damasio
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It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.
Moncure D. Conway
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ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
Leonard Cohen
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Thomas Carlyle
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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
Ken Kesey
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I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
Charles Bukowski
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I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
Maya Angelou
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
Manny Pacquiao
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The machinery of filmmaking is really slow and ponderous and I don't know how you're going to make it any faster with any of the systems, whether it's Red, Sony, or whatever.
Michael Seresin
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The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.
Carl Sagan
21.
Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.
Henry Ford
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
Herman Wouk
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But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
David Ricardo
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Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.
Frank Herbert
27.
Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
Will Rogers
28.
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
Laurie R. King
29.
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
Kurt Vonnegut
30.
AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.
Tim Berners-Lee
31.
I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.
Haruki Murakami
32.
The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius
By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
Robert Frost
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Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
Hugh Casson
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Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.
Charles Spurgeon
41.
I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
Paul Newman
42.
It is great to be a part of big-budget movies, but it is harder to feel like you are contributing, in the sense that it has such big machinery behind it.
Naomie Harris
43.
I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.
Charles Spurgeon
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All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
Neil Peart