“It is never the machines that are dead.
It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) Americna minister
Book II, Chapter V.
Crowds (1913)
“We are dead men. Dead men should be quiet in their graves, but they never are.”
Lews Therin Telamon
Winter's Heart (9 November 2000)
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