State Machines

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“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.”
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