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title: "3 Machines Devised Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/like-our-bodies-and-like-our-desires-the-machines-we-have-devised-are/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ford/machines-were-devised-not-to-do-a-man-out-of-a-job-but-to-take-the/)

[Henry Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ford/)

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> [“Like our bodies and our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-g-sebald-2/like-our-bodies-and-our-desires-the-machines-we-have-devised-are/)

[W.G. Sebald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-g-sebald-2/)

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