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«The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.»
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
expensive, judicial, judicial system, machine
«The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them»
«The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Machines,
Technology
| Keywords:
dumb, grim, hearted, machine, Masters, technology, The Machine
«The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it,»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| Keywords:
devotion, discovering, immediately, machine, scripture, spinning wheel, spins, The wheel, wheel
«The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.»
«Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Body,
Machines
| Keywords:
defend, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, machine, organized, paralyze, paralyzes, paralyzing, remedies, unhindered
«Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
active, appetite, balancing, constable, constables, contented, discontented, duties, emphatically, guided, keen, machine, No Quarter, parish, Parties, party man, quarter, securing, self government, self interest, taxing