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Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

Dorothy Thompson

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Dorothy Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1893
Born: July 9
Died: 1961
Died: January 30
Journalist
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Erie County
New York
Dorothy Celene Thompson
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