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... It’s my turn. I place the groceries on the counter, dig into my pocket and produce the K100 note. Instead of punching on her machine, the till la... ...astic manners? They are sickening. “Yes sir. This man has been robbed,” says the teller. “Did you punch the amount into the machine?” The manage...

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...n the earth - Baal HaSulam - 28 correcting n ature - Rabash - 29 a Perfect machine - Michael Laitman - 30 a Wheel in society - Baal HaSulam - 31 The B... ... world enjoying fire, rather than fleeing it. 30 The Wise Heart a Perfect Machine Based on a lecture by Michael Laitman (December 15, 2006) People ca... ... (December 15, 2006) People can be happy only when connected To the entire machine. To the extent of disconnection We aren’t nourished from its perfec... ...o the extent of disconnection We aren’t nourished from its perfection. The machine is perfect, since it is operated by The law of unconditional giving... ...tional giving. and we must adhere to that law as inseparable parts of that machine. The Wise Heart 31 a Wheel in Society From the Essay “Peace in the... ...individual is like a wheel, Joined with numerous others, all placed on one machine. a single wheel has no freedom of motion in and of itself. rather, ... ...lows the motion of the rest of the wheels in a certain direction, f or the machine To do its task. and if one of the wheels is broken, it isn’t evalu... ... itself, But rather in relation to its function and service of the entire machine. 32 The Wise Heart The body Knows An allegory by Baal HaSulam in “...

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...duces a grunt before commencing his brief for the benefit of all of them. He says, “Please note that all that we speak or do is being recorded on the machine, kept on the small table placed in that corner. Simultaneously, a copy of the recording here is being transmitted to our headquarters. You are nice and educated people. Having elicited the desired answers, he speaks, ...

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... thunder of armies. She listened more intensely to the hail that was like a machine gun with rubber coated pellets. She imagined herself riding on a... ... for her tit repulsed and stiffened her posture at times like a soldier at a machine gun in a trench and at other times like a soldier in a queue wait... ...ith the exception of creative goddesses like herself, a mind was a photocopy machine and a file cabinet. Her son needed to go to school and copy exte... ...as ringing but she wasn't aware of it either; a message on her old answering machine informing her about Nathaniel's truancy; the imbroglio discussed... ...drink and she drank it as one tends to do with drinks. "Master Card and Visa machines ainﾁOt workinﾁO today so IﾁOll assume you to have cash and you a... ...tically watched her towels and clothes through the window of the double-load machine. Washing clothes was a dollar and sixty-five cents per load. Most... ...per load. Most of the customers paid in dollars, but not all of them; so the machines needed special tokens to fall into the slots. To her knowledge d... ...e had all the reason in the world to hate her. She looked out to the distant machines--the medley of Mexican people folding dry clothes; putting wet o... ...opeful. Early into the job he knew that he was just one more cog in one more machine. Early into the job he knew that it would not make him into this ...

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...and Mrs. Bent, realising for the first time who was the God- dess from the Machine, stared also. Then Mrs. Delville made explanation, putting on a dir...

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...urself the price of an STD call.” I just love making out I’m an answering machine; some of my friends can’t tell the difference. I suddenly hear a f... ...eted within by a mixture of laughter and hysteria. Oh my god! The condom machine is having convulsions, whilst several women have lined the walls o... ...on Spike.” Steven is again looking sheepish. “He’s a cat, in your washing machine. Spike’s, well, not exactly house trained.” 79 “Of the feral vari... ...oo and it’s gawking at me in the form of a mangy, ginger cat. The washing machine lid is open, the upper part of his body is protruding from the bow... ...ce and I’m not moving. His front leg is resting on the rim of the washing machine and the other on his hip. Funny, I use to put a doll in that posit... ... myself moving with him, as we look at the floor between the bath and the machine. “Well let me tell you; they make fun of me and it’s not nice. It’... ...ll do; he let me go. With freedom, I instantly slam the lid of the washing machine shut. The clothesbasket is plonked on top with all the surrounding... ...ng. Ali slammed the lid down and I place the washing basket on top of the machine, which contains my smelly overalls and socks. “Not a word Steven,”... ...for all I care. My man is sitting on the couch; I place the video into the machine and press rewind, as some slack bastard didn’t do the job. Switchi...

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...e has been exchanged during the service, not to mention, sale of stock or machinery. The congregation has grown quite accustomed to seeing their pas... ... all his money at cards, now took out his frustration on the old pinball machine. Eventually, Morris had no choice than to throw the young man out ...

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...r into the center of the large, deep alumi- num vat. When he turned on the machine, it shot out cotton candy along the sides of the vat. Then he scoop... ...white walls en- close around me, and the sounds of the beeping and pumping machines fill the unusually quiet space. As I approach the bed, I can see t... ...closes her heavy eyes and slowly begins to drift away. Suddenly, the angry machines begin to beep furiously and a team of nurses rush into the room an... ...o my buddies and hop into my car. The silver station wagon is a beast of a machine, both in size and in sturdiness (it would survive to give my family... ... command. “Forward, march!” I could feel the whole group as if we were one machine traveling across the field. We moved for- ward in step, perfectly s...

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...s pockets or behind his back, came forth and became the piston rods of his machinery of expression. The story of Wing Biddlebaum is a story of hands. ... ... Bentley farms lay had begun to emerge from pioneer life. Jesse then owned machinery for har-vesting grain. He had built modern barns and most of his ... ...uring those years when modem industrialism was being born. He began to buy machines that would permit him to do the work of the farms while employing ... ... Jesse formed the habit of reading newspapers and magazines. He invented a machine for the making of fence out of wire. Faintly he realized that the a... ..., he went among his men with a smiling face. Jesse bought a great many new machines for cut-ting down the cost of labor and all of the re- maining acr...

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...ink about things before answering and reckons on the phone people demand instant decisions and responses. We’ve a landline that goes to the answering machine so she can listen to callers and decide whether to respond.’ ‘Must be hard for her boss and staff.’ ‘Everyone emails her. When she’s home the internet’s always on and when an email arrives a little alarm sounds. It’...

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...e practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. I do not pretend to be an origina...

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...ays held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I ha... ...m the structure—in short, the degree of perfection and imperfection of the machine is all hidden in the original cell. No well-informed person now thi... ...he poorest structures are infinite degrees of perfection, even down to the machine that has no capac- ity for any kind of work. No ordinarily intellig... ...tly conveyed and imperfectly registered. However, he is obliged to use the machine he has. Not only does the machine register impressions but it sends... ...the blood which, acting like fuel in an engine, generate more power in the machine, fill it with anger or fear and prepare it to respond to the direct... ... the directions to fight or flee, or to any type of action incident to the machine. It is only within a few years that biologists have had any idea of... ...s they are more or less imperfect; but in whatever condition they are, the machine responds to their flow. The stored-up impressions are more or less ... ...hat man is the product of heredity and environment and that he acts as his machine responds to outside stimuli and nothing else, seem amply proven by ... ...but must have obeyed the strongest. The same motives applied to some other machine might have produced an opposite result, but to his particular struc...

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...s Dividing When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame We Two Boys Together Clinging A Promise to California Here the Frailest Leaves of Me No Labor-Saving Machine A Glimpse A Leaf for Hand in Hand Earth, My Likeness I Dream'd in a Dream What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand To the East and to the West Sometimes with One I Love To a Western Boy Fast-Anchor'd Eternal O Lo...

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...f string, and strung out the field. This gave the person running the paint machine something to go by. All he had to do was follow the string, and lif... ...nesium riser will be used in years to come. The king of all bows uses a machined alu- minum riser. Unlike cast magnesium, which has to be poured in...

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...ilable as a private soldier, must be compressed and belted in till he be a machine. As soon as the men had left the vessel we walked over the side of ... ...y down the other. The system, therefore, is that of an ordinary dredg- ing machine only that corn and not mud is taken away, and that the buckets or t... ...han it should be. But hot-air drinking is like dram-drinking. There is the machine within the house capable of supplying any quan- tity, and those who... ...or this lady is well dressed, if fine clothes will make well dressing. The machinery of her hoops is not battered, and altogether she is a person- age... ... the people; that the smallness of the power necessary for carrying on the machine shows how beautifully the machine is orga- nized, and how well it w... ...pany was incor- porated in 1822, and thus Lowell was commenced. The Lowell Machine-shop was incorporated in 1845, and since that no new establishment ... ... the amount of the rise or fall. One would suppose that the most intricate machinery would have been necessary for such an arrangement; but it was all...

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... in vain, convinced him either that this universe was one grim, piti- less machine, grinding down humanity by mere law of ne- cessity, or if they woul...

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...duces a grunt before commencing his brief for the benefit of all of them. He says, “Please note that all that we speak or do is being recorded on the machine, kept on the small table placed in that corner, simultaneously, a copy of the recording here is being transmitted to our headquarters. You are nice and educated people. Having elicited the desired answers, he speaks,...

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...duces a grunt before commencing his brief for the benefit of all of them. He says, “Please note that all that we speak or do is being recorded on the machine, kept on the small table placed in that corner, Simultaneously, a copy of the recording here is being transmitted to our headquarters. You are nice and educated people. Having elicited the desired answers, he speaks,...

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...pose a social group because they all work for a common end. The parts of a machine work with a maximum of coopera- tiveness for a common result, but t... ...large number of human relationships in any social group are still upon the machine-like plane. Individuals use one another so as to get desired result... ...rtation, our ready command of heat, light, and electricity, our ready-made machines and apparatus for every purpose, do not, by themselves or in their... ...usiness aggregations that prey upon the public while serving it, political machines held together by the interest of plun- der, are included. If it is... ...er way about, to have an aim is to act with meaning, not like an automatic machine; it is to mean to do something and to perceive the meaning of thing... ...opic. Suppose, however, you are not skilled, or that, even if you are, the machine does not work well. You then have to use intelligence. You do not w... ...you have written, to your movements, to the ribbon or the mechanism of the machine. Your attention is not distributed indifferently and miscellaneousl... ... quietude; on silence, on rigid uniformity of posture and movement; upon a machine-like simulation of the attitudes of intel- ligent interest. The tea... ...how to do; how to walk, talk, read, write, skate, ride a bicycle, manage a machine, calculate, drive a horse, sell goods, manage people, and so on ind...

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...e to see a car that flies? One will never know. As the gap between man and machine grows smaller and smaller, we will be exposed to new and exciting i...

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...rity had in those burdensome, murky days the effect of a safety valve in a machine. The days in T sybukin’s house were spent in business cares. Before... ...haps because he had been for forty years occupied in repairing the factory machinery he judged everybody and everything by its sound- ness or its need...

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...ing to essence. For this kind of procedural poems one can elaborate mathematical algorithms and implement them in a computer: but, it is preferable a machine with … soul!...