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1  Nevertheless the dangers inherent in the machine are still there.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
2  With the development of machine production, however, the case was altered.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
3  The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
6  Presumably--since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner--she had some mechanical job on one of the novel-writing machines.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
7  From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  For the purposes of everyday life it was no doubt necessary, or sometimes necessary, to reflect before speaking, but a Party member called upon to make a political or ethical judgement should be able to spray forth the correct opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying forth bullets.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
9  Pursued by enemy jet planes while flying over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had weighted his body with his machine gun and leapt out of the helicopter into deep water, despatches and all--an end, said Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without feelings of envy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
10  And in fact, without being used for any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process--by producing wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to distribute--the machine did raise the living standards of the average human being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
11  The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering--a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons--a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting--three hundred million people all with the same face.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7