"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."
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"Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you."
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"Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety."
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"The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do."
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"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
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"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
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"Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off."
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"This machine kills fascists."
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"And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go."
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"The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'"
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"the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine."
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"What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine."
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"The universe... is a machine for the making of gods."
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"Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine."
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"The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex."
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"In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table."
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"Our body is a machine for living."
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"Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them."
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"I ain't getting on no time machine."
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"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."
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