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Tag Name "Invention" (794)

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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
James Russell Lowell
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Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.
Anne Rice
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It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.
Annalee Newitz
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From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.
Anna Louise Strong
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Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
Art Spiegelman
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain
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Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
Ann Douglas
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
Victor Hugo
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
Victor Hugo
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Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
Viktor Schauberger
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Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
John Sununu
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Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
Vanna Bonta
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Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor you will discover the human foot. On discovering it, your joy will be as great as if you had invented it. But this joy is the greatest, because no human invention even of Mr. Ford or Mr. Marconi is within a mile of a foot.
Vincent McNabb
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
Thomas More
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Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
Andy Hargreaves
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I guess they say, Necessity is the mother of invention because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
Viola Davis
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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
Virginia Woolf
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After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.
Andrea Pirlo
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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
Voltaire
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire
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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
Voltaire
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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.
Voltaire
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The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.
Vsevolod Meyerhold
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The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.
W. Edwards Deming
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