"Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property."
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"Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly."
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"The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with."
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"As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots."
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"I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness."
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"As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine."
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"The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted."
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"You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."
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"I consider Madonna a friend, and she sure knows how to work the publicity machine. Of course, I don't have breasts. If I did have, I'd be in the number one spot over Madonna."
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"It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict."
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"One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else."
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"My brief exchange with Guccifer 2 is six weeks after the hacking of the and publication of the DNC documents, which I'm accused of colluding with him on. In other words, I would need a time machine in order to collude."
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"I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up . . . they hear a recording of a busy signal."
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"Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image."
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"You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for."
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"I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place."
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"If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world."
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"The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye."
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"A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it."
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"I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital."
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