“Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.” PeopleThinkingMenWaterDifferencesBloodMachinesMills Book:Thoughts Source: Thoughts
“We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men.” IfsMenMatterHumanityDealsDestinyBloodColdConsciousMachinesRhythmIndifferenceMechanicProceduresDominanceMonstrosity Author:Rudolf Rocker
“If you're eating sugar throughout the day, you're spiking your blood sugar level and you're becoming a fat storing machine.” IfsLevelsBloodBecomingEatingMachinesFatsSugarBlood Sugar Author:Jackie Warner
“Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.” ThinkingKnowsMenShouldWarBloodMilitaryDecidedMachinesBraveAnguishBrave ManSoulless Author:George S. Patton
“Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.” BloodMinutesNormalMachinesPressureAskingInterviewsScreamSpectacularHookedRottingBlood Pressure Author:Lewis Black
“Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?" I nodded and pulled out my camp necklace. It had a bead for every summer I'd been at Camp Half-Blood, but since last year I'd also kept a sand dollar on the cord. My father had given it to me for my fifteenth birthday. He'd told me I would know when to "spend it," but so far I hadn't figured out what he meant. All I knew that it didn't fit the vending machines in the school cafeteria.” KnowsYearsStillsSchoolLastsFatherGivenHalfBloodFitSummerMachinesDollarsSandCampsLast YearCordsBeadsNecklacesCafeteriaLast SummerVending MachinesSand DollarSchool Cafeteria Author:Rick Riordan