Machinery Quotes - Page 2

• An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

  Aldrich Ames

  Organization, Reliability, Information

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• Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Ignorance, Government

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.161

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• When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

  Robert Moog

  Doe, Machines, Down And

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• I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

  Lucy Larcom

  Slave, Enough, Incessant

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spiritual, Prayer, World

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• Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

  Mother Jones

  Girl, Boys, Hands

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• I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

  Herman Wouk

  Men, Pressure, Under Pressure

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• To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

  Cordell Hull

  Determination, Pieces, Social

  Cordell Hull's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1945.

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• Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Maintenance, Guarantees

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• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Understanding, Machines

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Father, Two, Telescopes

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• Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

  Nikola Tesla

  Generations, Driven, Kinetic Energy

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (1993). “The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla”, p.97, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Ideas, Space

  "Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency". Nikola Tesla's Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, February 1892.

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• Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Faith, Mean, Effort

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Technology, Worry

  "Waldo & Magic, Inc". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1950.

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• We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Business, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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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

  People, Worry, Revolution

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• Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

  Margaret Sanger

  Past, Reality, Silence

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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

  Life, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.461, Penguin

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• From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Tinkering, Death Penalty, Human Rights

  Callins v.Collins (dissenting opinion) (1994)

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• 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

  Agreement, Development, World

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• Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Modification, Heredity

  Princeton University, James Mark Baldwin (1896). “Contributions to Psychology”

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• I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

  Henry Bessemer

  White, Enough, Powder

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

  Michael Behe

  Tissues, Chemical Reactions, Structure

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• We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Real, Women, Government

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