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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. -- D. H. Lawrence
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead. -- Gerald Stanley Lee
You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. -- Lionel Shriver
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. -- Alice Munro
We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. -- Marilyn Ferguson
They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303 -- Lionel Shriver
Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost. -- Maurice Nicoll
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. -- Roland Barthes
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator. -- Erica Jong
Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity. -- Rudolf Arnheim
I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education. -- John Dykstra
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. -- Karel Capek
Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully. -- John Steinbeck
It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway. -- Francesco Clemente
I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets. -- Ryan Reynolds
The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action. -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior. -- Michael J. Saylor
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it. -- Richard Steele
With an evermore increase of industrialisation machine stops being merely a tool, develops a life of its own and imposes its rhythm onto human. Operating it he moves mechanically, becomes part of the machine. -- Heide Schönemann
In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. -- Michael Schenker
I have assistants that use the internet a lot more than I do. I use the internet for photo research, but for me personally, probably just because of my age, I'm not that mechanically inclined. -- Colleen Atwood
Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking. -- Julia Child
The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge, -- Steven Chu

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