“ War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
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“ I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see. ”
- Dziga Vertov- Copy
- 1.5K
“ There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. ”
- Gandhi- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. ”
- Andre Norton- Copy
- 796
“ The railroad is sprung from the application of two fundamental ideas - one the use of a mechanical means of developing speed, the other the use of a smooth running surface to diminish friction. ”
- John Moody- Copy
- 1.8K
“ No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ”
- Garrett Hardin- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 991
“ It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. ”
- Oliver Evans- Copy
- 974
“ Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ”
- Mildred Barthel- Copy
- 873
“ It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ”
- Beverly Jones- Copy
- 686
“ As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside. ”
- Sonia Johnson- Copy
- 953
“ "Automatic" simply means that you can't repair it yourself. ”
- Mary H. Waldrip- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
- 263
“ We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. ”
- Ray Kurzweil- Copy
- 2K
“ My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. ”
- Brian Eno- Copy
- 125
“ When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned. ”
- Marie Osmond- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment of expression. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
- 557
“ But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 793
“ Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy, perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world. ”
- Margaret A. Ribble- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 828
“ The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight… ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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