From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
When you're 18 and you've made the album of your dreams, you're not really thinking about the machinery that will actually take… — Patrick Wolf Copy Share Image
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of… — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by… — Thomas Nelson Page Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
