Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• Gain
• Advancement
• Technician

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• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  

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• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

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• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

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• Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

  

  Pat Gillick
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• And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.

  

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• An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

  

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• Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
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• Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

  

  Keanu Reeves
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• We were doing something called telemedicine, where we were using the ultrasound. One interesting application of this ultrasound is the possibility that you could possibly use it to measure critical bone areas during a long space mission and track if you're losing bone in these areas. On Earth, when they check you for bone loss, you get in this big machine. It's the size of a room and it's got a platform with an x-ray that scans your whole body and in critical areas and it takes a while and it just wouldn't be practical to have a machine like that in space.

  

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• I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

  

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• There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• There’s no need to look at a machine to find what is twelve times twelve. The answer is indelibly there.

  

  R. M. Williams
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• And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

  

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• So long as human beings can gain sufficient co-operation from some to enable them to dominate others, they will use the forms of law as one of their instruments. Wicked men will enact wicked rules which others will enforce. What surely is most needed in order to make men clear sighted in confronting the official abuse of power, is that they should preserve the sense that the certification of something as legally valid is not conclusive of the question of obedience, and that, however great the aura of majesty or authority which the official system may have, its demands must in the end be submitted to a moral scrutiny.

  

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• Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

  

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• Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

  

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• When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

  

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• Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

  

  Andrew Neel
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• Eating toast in the shower is the ultimate multitask.

  

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• Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Machine
  • Gain
  • Advancement