"People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines."

-- Ludwig von Bertalanffy

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Machines Quotes

“[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.”
“What are we waiting for? Why is Jesus waiting in heaven at the right hand of the Father? Who is He waiting for? He is waiting for you and me to become mature, for the Bride of Christ to become mature, so that He can come again. Did you know that God has done everything He can do? If anything else is going to be done, we're going to do it.”
“There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom.”
“We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.”
“The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.”
“Look, if you think your need to complain is more important than the lives of the people that are counting on us, go whine somewhere else!”
“I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl â€” in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I, on the other hand, spent eight months with my face squashed up against someone elseâ€™s backside in one sodden trench after another. And it looks as if Tom might have got the girl again [in Colditz], damn his eyes.”
“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.”

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