Machinery Quotes
316 quotes by 264 authors
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
— Charles Babbage
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if…
— Michael Caine
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in…
— Corazon Aquino
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up…
— Horace Mann
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Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.
— Charles Spurgeon
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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by…
— Ruth McKenney
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood…
— Winston Churchill
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Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
— Albert Einstein
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Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as…
— Gabrielle Roth
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a…
— Ernest K. Gann
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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
— John Maynard Keynes
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The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of…
— Herbert Spencer
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all…
— George Bernard Shaw
Who Wrote These Machinery Quotes
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