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Machines Quotes by Edward Abbey
- We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
- Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
- Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
- We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and…
- Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong --…
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- I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker