Machine Quotes

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If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live? — Karyn Calabrese
The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will… — Winston Churchill
The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen — Ernest Hemingway
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which… — Leo Tolstoy
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. — Benjamin Graham
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of… — Isaac Asimov
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. — Margaret Atwood
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the… — Tom Crabtree
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt… — Max Euwe
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and… — Ansel Adams
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of… — Isak Dinesen
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. — Gilbert Ryle
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it. — John Stuart Mill
In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where… — Prince Philip
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius… — Daniel Dennett
Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast… — Friedrich Naumann

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