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Quotes About Machinery

Life can be so free here! There is none of that machinery of living which makes people on earth such slaves. In our world a man is held only by his thoughts. If they are free, he is free.
~ barker elsa iv
People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.
~ John Prine
Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
~ Hanna Rosin
She always says that americans can understand spaniards. That they are the only two western nations that can realize abstraction. That in americans it expresses itself b disembodiedness, in literature and machinery, in Spain by ritual so abstract that it does not connect itself with anything but ritual.
~ Gertrude Stein
Workers are basically supervisors of machines.
~ David Autor
I enjoy working on anything mechanical.
~ Guy Martin
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
~ George Ryan
They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery.
~ David R. Brower
As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.
~ Mike Schultz
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
~ Michael Behe
The excitement of resistance two years ago, when it had seemed certain the Führer's inordinate excesses, his purges, his insanities would yield a revolt among his own ranks and knock him out of power, had been flattened into quietude by the steady, unsleeping machinery of the Reich operating in plain sight.
~ Sarah Blake
much of the boring machinery identified as management has more value for the manager's ego than the quality of work produced.
~ Scott Berkun
The world is not a piece of machinery and animals are not articles manufactured for our use. Such views should be left to synagogues and philosophical lecture-rooms, which in essence are not so very different.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It's a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate. A battle of lovers against haters. It's an unequal battle, because the love is on the street and vulnerable. The hate is on the street, too, but it is armed to the teeth, and protected by all the machinery of the state.
~ Arundhati Roy
Often he vanished for days down the spiral staircase into the engine-room to overhaul the weary machinery, leaving me with a curt note tacked to his then-favourite aspen, the Aspen Laura-Anne, a white-limbed thing with noisy leaves: 'A due-south drift, please, love, for a day or two, n'est-ce pas?
~ Stanley Crawford
Precisely because the Inquisition provides a blueprint for building and operating the machinery of persecution...the Inquisition was and still is a danger to human life and human liberty.
~ Jonathan Kirsch
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
~ Emir Kusturica
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
~ Eric Hoffer
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The most serious adverse effects of the benzodiazepines occur when other sedative substances, such as alcohol, are taken concurrently. These combinations can result in marked drowsiness, disinhibition, or even respiratory depression. Infrequently, benzodiazepine receptor agonists cause mild cognitive deficits that may impair job performance. Persons taking benzodiazepine receptor agonists should be advised to exercise additional caution when driving or operating dangerous machinery.
~ Benjamin James Sadock
Now comes the reign of iron.
~ John Ericsson
At Ferrari they didn't give me the space, and at Honda I had the space but I didn't have the machinery.
~ Rubens Barrichello
I am hopeless with machinery. I could never learn to drive a car except into a wall.
~ Ruskin Bond
By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.
~ Shigeru Yoshida