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“Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind the mind as machine and the mind as anti-machine, delighting in its powers of combination and tran...”
“Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.”
“For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of la...”
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict ...”
“The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay. But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal to be sa...”
“You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.”
“Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.”
“Man is a tool-using animal.”
