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True creativity emerges when we understand that patience is not simply the absence of action, but instead a transformational act of anticipation, a maze where our thoughts miners discover shimmering gold.
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Evelyn Reyes
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In every whisper of undisturbed air, the seeds of quiet innovation infuse our world with untamed wisdom waiting to blossom.
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Elena Hampshire
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In the gestation of invention, curiosity dances delicately with happenstance, revealing paths we never dared to map.
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Sofia Turner
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Fortune dog-willing owes its artistry to the clips and joints of pure whimsy; in robe-assaran stub-to, moons, reciprocity breathes satisfaction through offhand notes.
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Sylvia Wisherton
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Accidental discoveries orchestrate magicians in reality, revealing truths that logic never conceived and glittering wealth locked inordinate awaiting our serend(Route69weis-fcoin rays of curiosity.
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Sara Kennedy
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Amidst the toil of predefined tasks, it is the willful whims of chance that create pure alchemy in discovery.
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Violet Sterling
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Like a child chasing shadows on a summer's day, we often stumble upon profound wonders when we least expect them; accident reveals intention anew.
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Clara Wilcroft
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The appeal of imperfect knowledge lies not in its limitations but in the avenues of wonder it endlessly opens, enticing us toward realms our intellect had yet to reach.
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Ava Trench
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Adventure lurks in hindsight, unforgettable treasures unearthed only when purpose made room for wanderings of excellence.
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Jane Taylor
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Occasionally, the greatest doors open not through necessity but through chaos, revealing possibilities crafted in the moments of distraction.
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Navin Hollis
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Innovation often wears casual clothes, showing up to a problem unnoticed, like lost treasure finding hidden shores.
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Catarina Ops
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Accidental discoveries gracefully spin into our lives like uninvited dancers at a masquerade ball, sewing threads of curiosity and awe into the tapestry of existence.
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Avery Selwood
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Accidental discoveries weave the threads of imagination with destiny, illuminating paths untouched by foresight.
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Priya Chatterjee
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Disrupted routines nourish the mind's moments of creative ascent, as upheaval cradles our fragility in something refreshingly new.
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Lila Pfennig
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Serendipity carves hidden echoes into the fabric of ordinary moments, each artifact revealing a tranquil whisper of nature's artistry ready to be discovered.
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Aurora Summers
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Amidst chaos and unpredictability, unstructured play ignites the essential spark of curiosity, lawlessly cultivating the mind's wildest wheels of imagination.
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Clara Winters
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Unstructured play is the canvas where creativity donates shapes never considered and voices rarely heard.
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Clara Bedham
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Tiny shifts weave vast tapestries, as that which os seeded within whispers often grows holistically at the prism's edges.
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Elowen Ravensky
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The draw of intuitive knowledge isn't merely in revelation; it's a potent gravity that shields inventions poised to whisper wisdom before they bloom.
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Lena Martinez
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Sometimes the most remarkable evolutions arise from whispers of thought rather than shouts of impulse; in the discipline of patience, ideas mature to transcend their first inception.
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Clara Bustopia
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Balancing mindful musings and practicality is an art where the heart wanders, yet remains very much in the garden of actions.
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Sophia Carter
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In a world where every dawn whispers secrets of possibilities, the hunger for eternal awakening eclipses stagnation--our minds should dance, constantly tempted by shapes anew.
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Elisa Cartwright
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Our restless quest for progress churns the circuitboards of possibility, aging them as curbside rescue icons if not told supported finales capable of vast robotics paradox mimetics.
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Cordelia Richards
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Playful curiosity defies the chains of convention, propelling us into the seeds of invention, where joy and inquiry swirl into life's wild wonder.
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Jasper Calliope
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At the blend of flavors where cultures collide, unexpected culinary crossroads whisper stories untold.
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Jules Remoleux
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Among the remnants of our dismissed aspirations lie the whispers of what might have been, chiseled intricately by time and choices unmade.
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Eloise Bennett
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Imagination is the spark that ignites innovation.
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Lily Yang
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Embrace the unknown, for it holds the essence of creativity and growth.
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Stella Parker
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Creativity is seeing the world through the lens of possibilities, not limitations.
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Lily Chang
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Creativity is the fuel for invention, the spark for inspiration, and the key to unlocking endless possibilities.
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Emma Stevens
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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
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Whitney Young
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Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.
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P. Wolfson
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
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Walter Williams
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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Carolyn Wells
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
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Daniel Webster
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In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
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Paul Watzlawick
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Bill Watterson
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
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Henry Wallace
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The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
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George Wald
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In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
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George Wald
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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
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Leonardo Vinci
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Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.
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Tomas Victoria
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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Thorstein Veblen
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I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
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Alanna Ubach
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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Jonathan Swift
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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Jonathan Swift
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.
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George Soros
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
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Sydney Smith
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
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Cornelia Skinner
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Ignazio Silone
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.
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Mary Shelley
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
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William Shakespeare
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It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
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Michael Servetus
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But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
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Erno Rubik
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Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
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Nicolas Roeg
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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Samuel Richardson
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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
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Joshua Reynolds
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
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Henri Poincare
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
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Plato
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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Marge Piercy
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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Octavio Paz
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The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
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Seymour Papert
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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
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Tim O'Reilly
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
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Roger Oech
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
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Fridtjof Nansen
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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
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James Naismith
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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Samuel Morton
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I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
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Robert Moog
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The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
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Demetri Martin
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
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Gustav Mahler
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
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Patrick Macnee
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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
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Norman MacCaig
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My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.
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Auguste Lumiere
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The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
Author:
Friedrich List
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Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
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Ninon Lenclos
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Tanith Lee
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Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
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Steve Lacy
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I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
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Ray Kurzweil
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I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
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Ben Kingsley
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Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
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Mark Kelly
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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Garry Kasparov
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I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
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Dean Kamen
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A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
Author:
Dean Kamen
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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
Author:
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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Lyndon Johnson
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This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
Author:
Bill Irwin
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Author:
Robert Hutchins
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For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
Author:
David Horowitz
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
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Edward Hopper
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Alfred Hitchcock
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How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
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David Hilbert
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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Ernest Hemingway
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Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.
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Townsend Harris
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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Garrett Hardin
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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
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John Haldane
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The unsaid often ignites the brightest ideas, quelling the noise of conformity--silence, after all, is the canvas upon which innovation paints its boldest strokes.
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Avery Thorn
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So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
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Chris Hadfield
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The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.
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Jane Haddam
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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
Author:
Michael Graves
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
Author:
Remy Gourmont
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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Author:
Mikhail Gorbachev
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I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
Author:
Lefty Gomez
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
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Henry George
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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Author:
Theophile Gautier
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
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Northrop Frye
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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.
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David Frost
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There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Author:
Helen Frankenthaler
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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Michel Foucault
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Author:
Michel Foucault
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
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Robert Fitzgerald
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Necessity, the mother of invention.
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George Farquhar
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Author:
Max Ernst
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
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Douglas Engelbart
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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Thomas Edison
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The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.
Author:
Jared Diamond
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What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
Author:
Marc Davis
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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Author:
Doug Coupland
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
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William Congreve
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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
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J. Coetzee
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I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
Author:
Joel Coen
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America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.
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Nick Clooney
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Simplicity does not just mask complexity; it erases the noise, inviting us to uncover enigmas in the whispers of elegance.
Author:
Elara Tillman
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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
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Tom Clancy
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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Emile Cioran
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Author:
Agatha Christie
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I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.
Author:
Alex Chiu
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The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
Author:
Henry Carey
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Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Author:
Robert Byrne
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The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.
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John Bruton
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Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Author:
Thomas Brown
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Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Author:
Norman Borlaug
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America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
Author:
Kit Bond
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You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
Author:
Richard Blackmore
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We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
Author:
Jimmy Black
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Doubt is the father of invention.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.
Author:
Henry Bessemer
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
Author:
John Berger
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Author:
Pierre Bayle
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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Author:
Pierre Bayle
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Author:
Dave Barry
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
Author:
John Ashcroft
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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
Author:
Rudolf Arnheim
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Author:
Susan Anthony
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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Author:
Mose Allison
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Author:
John Adams
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
Author:
Lascelles Abercrombie
