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“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”

Source: White Collar: The American Middle Classes

“I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.”

Trying Kind Littles Business Doors Ten Machines Sells Entrepreneur Starting Newspapers Cards Not Sure Intriguing Greetings Vending Machines Greeting Card

Author:Steve Case

“Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?”

Mind Kind Brain Computer Machines Giants

Author:David H. Hubel

“The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.”

Writing Kind Littles Running Language Hours Half Air Machines Simplicity English Language Hype Deceptive

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain that alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine would not, I suppose, have thus suffered, and if I had to live my life over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use.”

Source: The life and letters of Charles Darwin...ed. by his son, Francis Darwin. 2 v

“TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.”

Needs Kind Littles States Suffering Actors Bits Cases Tvs Little Bit Machines Creator Driven Producers

Author:Rose Byrne

“The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.”

Kind Whole Helping Machines Help Me Grounded Publicity

Author:Wendie Malick

“The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.”

Mind Humans Kind Dream Eye Together Can Do Human Beings Space Violence Machines Cameras Time And Space Time Machine

Author:Minor White

“If there was a better way to go then it would find me I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine”

Ifs Way Kind Mean I Can Helping Behinds Machines Treats Extraordinary Be Kind Find Me Better Ways

Author:Fiona Apple

“There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.”

Kind Facts Force Standards Gun Machines Police Historical Heavy Locals All Kinds Department Chemicals Tanks Rockets Spray Police Force Machine Guns Infantry Police Department Bazookas

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.”

Kind Mean States Poetry Machines Poetic

Author:Paul Verlaine

“Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States?”

Thinking World Kind War States Courses Revolution Type Return Becoming Eternal Machines Organization All Kinds Planes Gambling Why Not Impossibility Fascists

Book:Dialogues

Source: Dialogues

“At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”

Men Firsts Looks Kind May Mean Social Crime Empty Machines Slavery Painful Rhythm Confused Mechanism Typical Glances Anguish Gang Social Life Gaiety

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people. And for me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us.”

People Kind Littles Persons Different Helping Dream Able Purpose Certain Bits Growth Born Journey Civilization Little Bit Empathy Machines Raised Stuck Aspiration Who We Are Reach Out Packages

Author:Roger Ebert