Machinery Quotes - Page 10

• [N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Government, Law

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.269

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• The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.

  John Moody

  Land, Acres, Today

  John Moody (2013). “The Railroad Builders (Volume 38 Chronicles of America)”, CreateSpace

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• Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

  Jon Landau

  Perfection, Feelings, Risk

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• Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Law, Giving

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.150, Beard Books

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• As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property. A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished.

  John Bright

  Assessment, Hands, Land

  Letter to his sister Margaret, 1842. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, pp. 72-73, 1913.

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• In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Thinking, Long, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody has to keep them safe from the mess that is the machinery.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Talking, Light, Safe

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, People, Desire

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• It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, Lonely, Hate

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

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• Pap Machinery uses LubeMate products to keep our truck fleet moving so we can provide timely service to our customers. LubeMate has proven they manufacture quality products that meet our daily demands. The LubeMate team at Valley Industries has provided excellent service and their products are an exceptional value.

  Greg Roberts

  Team, Moving, Quality

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• It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.

  Alvin Toffler

  Mistake, Educational, Goal

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• Ever since 9/11, I found myself interested in chronicling the war and the war on terror and the way that this giant machinery was affecting individuals.

  Mark Boal

  War, Giants, Way

  Source: deadline.com

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• Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

  Andy Warhol

  Sleep, People, Slavery

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Knives, Complicated, Never Trust

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.151, Penguin

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• I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

  Paul Newman

  Nuts, Watches

  "Still the blue-eyed boy". Interview with John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 13, 2002.

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• The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying...The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Giving Up, Organization

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• If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Tangled, Would Be

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• How easy it is to work for God when we are filled with His Spirit! His service is so sweet, so delightful; He is not a hard master. People talk about their being overworked and breaking down. It is not so. It is [over-worry] and care that wears people out.
  Why do so many workers break down? Not from overwork, but because there has been friction of the machinery; there hasn't been enough of the oil of the Spirit. Great engines have their machinery so arranged that where there is friction there is oil dropping on it all the time. It is a good thing for Christians to have plenty of oil.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Sweet, Oil

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• The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers."

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Giving Up, Believe

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Age, Machines

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1955). “An American architecture”, Horizon Pr

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• What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.

  Dar Williams

  Country, Morning, War

  Source: progressive.org

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• The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Law, Secret, Causes

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• The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

  Agatha Christie

  Safe And Sound, Long, Safety

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• The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Government, Hierarchy, Incompetence

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