Famous quotes containing the words machine and/or readable:
“The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotents.”
—Edward Dahlberg (19001977)
“Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so stong in the historianif he be a readable historianis lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.”
—Agnes Repplier (18581950)
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