Famous quotes containing the words talking, machine and/or company:
“The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“The momentary charge at Balaklava, in obedience to a blundering command, proving what a perfect machine the soldier is, has, properly enough, been celebrated by a poet laureate; but the steady, and for the most part successful, charge of this man, for some years, against the legions of Slavery, in obedience to an infinitely higher command, is as much more memorable than that as an intelligent and conscientious man is superior to a machine. Do you think that that will go unsung?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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