Machine Quotes
1422 quotes by 1141 authors
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The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.
— Hermann Biggs
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Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve…
— Stewart Alsop II
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
— Charles Darwin
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Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine…
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting…
— Marcy Kaptur
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We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than…
— Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning…
— Robert Heilbroner
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would…
— Aristotle Onassis
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In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a…
— C.S. Lewis
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The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to…
— Rhonda Byrne
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine,…
— J. G. Ballard
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near…
— Edward Dahlberg
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The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece…
— Ross Macpherson Smith
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It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine…
— Richard Bach
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The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine…
— Richard Bach
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No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary…
— George Washington
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When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.
— Sam Ewing
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