Machines Quotes - Page 37

• It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

  James Ira Thomas Jones

  Pilots, Firsts, Aviation

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• The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Leadership, Women, Independent

  Phyllis Schlafly (1967). “Safe--not sorry”, Pere Marquette Pr

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• My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

  GG Allin

  Gun, Mind, Target

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• I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hands, Design, Lasts

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• It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Freedom, Independent, Media

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• Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.

  Gregory Benford

  Cutting, Ideas, People

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• Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

  Michael Shermer

  Unattainable, Human Nature, Immortality

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• And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible.

  Jack Spicer

  Mean, Thinking, Tree

  Jack Spicer (2010). “The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

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• A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.

  Gilbert Murray

  Horse, Real, Men

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• Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

  Toby Young

  Running, Games, People

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• By mastering both aspects of our being we remember not only how to think, but what to think. What I'm clear about now is that the mind is a tool, a mechanism, and the soul provides the fuel for that machine. The less fuel you use, the more inefficiently the engine will operate. On the other hand, if your soul fills your mind with spiritual energy, you will be Mind-Full - and the workings of this engine can produce miracles.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Thinking, Hands

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• War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

  Alberto Moravia

  Clever, War, Soldier

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• When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine

  Suzanne Ciani

  My Boyfriend, Pieces, Furniture

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• No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.

  Lydia Davis

  Calling, May, Checks

  Lydia Davis (2007). “Varieties of Disturbance: Stories”, p.86, Macmillan

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• The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites.

  Terence McKenna

  Grateful, Night, Self

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• Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere. Nonpolluting hydrogen powers all vehicles. Sunlight and wind generate the hydrogen. Note the earth-covered bridges, the continuous window bands, the wind machines across the farmlands. In this new America, everything is reused, recycled, conserved.

  Malcolm Wells

  Views, Wind, Bridges

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• Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

  Paul Krugman

  Media, Wings, United States

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• Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.

  Che Guevara

  Hate, People, Soldier

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• A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Hate, Cold

  "The Cuban Revolution: Years of Promise". Book by Teo A. Babun and Victor Andres Triay, p. 57, 2005.

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• Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn.

  Che Guevara

  Air, Discipline, Use

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• Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!

  Christopher Atkins

  Funny, Dog, Thank God

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• For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Levers, Matter, Way

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book II, (Ch. 12), 1952.

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• Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Stupid, Expression, Order

  "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 1), 1938.

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• I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

  John Philip Sousa

  Vices, Deterioration, Artistic

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.31, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so.

  Harriet Quimby

  Country, Eye, Castles

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