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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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg

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Selfishness
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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. – Edward Dahlberg

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Machines, Machinery
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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

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

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. – Lewis Mumford

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

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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect. – Walter Hagen

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But when youre a working actor – and thats what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job – and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, its pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool. – Christopher Meloni

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