"A coke machine can get a rebound in 20 minutes."
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"Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine."
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"Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t."
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"Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market."
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"the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness."
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"When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent."
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"I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed"
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"The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control."
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"It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth."
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"No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech."
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"There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine.""
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"Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been."
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"I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel."
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"To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine."
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"I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake."
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"A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating."
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"Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines."
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"The British government is a murder machine."
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"We are not thinking machines."
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"The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen"
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