You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe …

E. M. Forster
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You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything. ✨ E. M. Forster (2015). The Machine Stops, p.5, Simon and Schuster
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