"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
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"The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to."
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"A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay."
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"It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine."
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"As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."
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"If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it."
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"The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means."
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"Smash the control images. Smash the control machine."
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"It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine."
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"Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?"
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"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
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"Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine."
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"Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine."
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"I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away."
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"The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine."
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"We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines"
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"Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher."
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"An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery."
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"By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do."
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"The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels"
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