A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before — the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and...
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Robert Hughes
Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.
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Anonymous
Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind – the mind as machine and the mind as anti-machine, delighting in its powers of combination and transgression. They fail as well to appreciate the extend to...
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment .. . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with...
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Thomas Jefferson
The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay. But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal to be said for it. The machine has got to...
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George Orwell
More Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
Now comes the mystery! (last words)
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
