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Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises. -- C. E. M. Joad
Automatic simply means that you can?t repair it yourself. -- Frank Capra
Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place. -- Demetri Martin
Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally? -- Natalie Dormer
Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit. -- Andrew Tobias
Lost in Static 18 And the storm is closing in now Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell You're a prisoner of the dark sky The propeller blades are still And the evil eye of the hurricane's Coming in now for the kill -- Mike Oldfield
Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status. -- Richard Dawkins
Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am. -- Craig Bruce
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. -- Temple Grandin
When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic. -- Henepola Gunaratana
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned. -- Marie Osmond
You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.' -- Marianne Williamson
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. -- Douglas Coupland
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. -- Alex Haley
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. -- Ayn Rand
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. -- G. Stanley Hall
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. -- G. Stanley Hall
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children. -- Marshall Herskovitz
Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users. -- Ben Parr
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. -- C. Wright Mills
In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself. -- Michio Kaku
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. -- Ralph W. Sockman
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. -- A. S. Byatt
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence. -- Simon Cowell
We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc. -- Alan Dershowitz
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. -- Steve Jobs
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. -- Steve Martin
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation. -- William S. Burroughs
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not. -- Sebastian Junger
I actually don't pay a lot of attention to the movie 'industry'... I just do the work when I get it. I never considered anything I was in, or did, as a possible breakthrough for me. I have advised other actors not to expect anything. Expecting a 'breakthrough' is almost an automatic for sure 'let down' or heartbreak. -- Mark Margolis
Making people laugh was automatic. -- Sherman Hemsley
Change is automatic, Progress is Not! -- Tony Robbins
Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . . -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In anarchy there is no automatic harmony . -- Kenneth Waltz
Never trust a woman or an automatic weapon. -- John Dillinger
Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works. -- Daniel J. Bernstein
There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. -- Gloria Steinem
Conscious effort inhibits and "?jams' the automatic creative mechanism. -- Maxwell Maltz
Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am. -- Craig Bruce
Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer. -- Steve Coleman
We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship, -- Elaine Chao
Friend request from a cute girl is an automatic follow. -- Kliff Kingsbury
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates. -- Graham Greene
Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still. -- Maxwell Maltz
The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid. -- Franklin Raines
I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes. -- Kate Hattemer
Transformation is not automatic. It must be learned; it must be led. -- W. Edwards Deming
There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon. -- Michael Nutter
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me. -- Rudy Rucker
There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic. -- Susan Jeffers
It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols. -- John Masefield
A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance. -- Pat Barker
The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic. -- Richard Thaler
It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. -- John Brunner
There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%. -- Ben Bernanke
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic. -- Marshall McLuhan
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam. -- Oliver Stone
Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion. -- Dennis Oli
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do. -- Bill Murray
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. -- Douglas MacArthur
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. -- Brian Eno
What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice. -- Alison Gopnik
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. -- Camille Paglia
Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith. -- John Bevere
Most public bathrooms now have automatic toilet sensors. People can't even be trusted to flush. -- Dov Davidoff
If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic. -- Pierre Dukan
I'd always have a sort of automatic urge to share what I'm doing with other people. -- Jill Soloway
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others. -- Wayne Dyer
By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine. -- Twyla Tharp
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork. -- Camille Paglia
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization. -- Man Ray
Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family. -- Wayne Dyer
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns. -- Howard Metzenbaum
They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot. -- Bob Woodward
With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic. -- Elizabeth McCracken
Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? -- Natalie Angier
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do. -- John Hodgman
Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement. -- Steve Bartlett
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. -- Oleg Cassini
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing. -- Nina Simone
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight. -- Al Yankovic
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. -- Larry Wall
When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought. -- Deepak Chopra
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it. -- Romulus Linney
Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot. -- Robert G. Allen
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it. -- Daniel Kahneman
Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn. -- Roy Barnes
Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that, Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic! -- Fredro Starr
The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do. -- Bill Murray
It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets. -- Don Lemon
Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self. -- W. H. Auden
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave. -- Norbert Wiener
Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change. -- Mitch Kapor
If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of. -- Cotton Fitzsimmons
I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me. -- Trevor Baylis
Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.". -- Theodore Levitt
There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism. -- Gijs de Vries
You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you canâ??t invent more time. -- Daniel Handler
The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself. -- David Allen
True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes. -- Nicholas Lore
he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details? -- Nora Roberts
Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine. -- Alex Comfort
I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get. -- Sam Waterston
My first TV crush was Elroy Jetson, because he was so cute. And I wanted to play with Astro on his automatic dog-walker thing. -- Alyson Hannigan
Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you. -- Bruce Springsteen
If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it. -- Charlie Munger
When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone. -- T. S. Eliot
My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything. -- Laurie Notaro
I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed. -- Doris Lessing
I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police. -- John Howard
I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one. -- Barack Obama
Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. -- Randy Alcorn
If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result. -- Lynne Truss

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