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| To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. (Thomas A. Edison) |
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| Getting caught is the mother of invention. (Robert Byrne) |
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| Necessity, who is the mother of invention. (Plato The Republic) |
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| Getting caught is the mother of invention. (Robert Byrne) |
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| All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. (Thomas Paine) |
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| A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security. (Author Unknown) |
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| My method is different. I don't rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the devise in my mind. When I have gone as far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain. (Win Ng) |
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| It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others. (Johann Kaspar Lavater) |
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| Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention. (Margaret Mead) |
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| Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. (Cornelia Otis Skinner) |
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| We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love. (Andre Maurois) |
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| Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. (David Frost) |
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| Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. (Bertrand Russell) |
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| Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. (Julius Frontinus) |
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| The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. (Mikhail Gorbachev) |
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| A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. (Mitch Ratcliffe) |
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| Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. (Ann Douglas) |
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| Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. (Louis Pasteur) |
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| For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind. (Plato) |
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| We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. (Eric Hoffer) |
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| In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. (Susanne Langer) |
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| Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it. (Eric Hoffer) |
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| Invention is the mother of necessity. (Thorstein Veblen) |
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| An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. (Charles F. Kettering) |
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| Necessity, who is the mother of invention. (Plato The Republic) |
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