Quote by Edward Dahlberg
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and lov

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. – Edward Dahlberg

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Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake. – Edward Dahlberg

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Optimism
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. – Edward Dahlberg

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Technology
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Machines, Machinery
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. – Thomas Carlyle

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. – Percy Wynham Lewis

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. – Karel Capek

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artists hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. – Peter Medawar

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Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place Im visiting. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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