Quotes with machinery

  • I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
  • In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
  • The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

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  • Horace Mann Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Eli Stanley Jones Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.
    Eli Stanley Jones
    American missionary and theologian (1884 - 1973)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Brad Holland Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Andy Warhol I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Wyndham Lewis If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Frank Crane It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Virginia Woolf My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bernard Beckett Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Stephen Leacock The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Arthur Young The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • H.G. Wells There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Hannah Arendt Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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