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Machines Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
- Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
- If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
- If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say,…
- If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly…
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