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Why, a machine

An exchange between a robot and her family in Ray Bradbury's I Sing the Body Electric. She has been asked what she is.
"Why, a machine. But even in that answer we know, don't we, more than a machine. I am all the people who thought of me and planned me and built me and set me running. So I am people. I am all the things they wanted to be and perhaps could not be, so they built a great child, a wondrous toy to represent those things."
A machine you say - perhaps also a book.

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