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Tag Name "Invention" (794)

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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
John B. S. Haldane
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Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention
Colleen McCullough
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Invention is the mother of necessities.
Marshall McLuhan
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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
James Dyson
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller
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[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist? [He replied] Well, a politician. She said, That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first.
Ronald Reagan
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We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos the materials must in the first place be afforded it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The book is man's best invention so far.
Carolina Maria de Jesus
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Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.
Andre Kertesz
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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
Conan O'Brien
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Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.
Isaac Asimov
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But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.
Adolf Hitler
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Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals.
Slavoj Žižek
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
Charles Lamb
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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
John Zachary Young
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I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!
Kristin Bauer van Straten
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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.
Carl Sagan
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All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
John Marsden
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My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
Chuck Palahniuk
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I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses
Thomas Heatherwick
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Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.
John F. Kennedy
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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail you have to be willing to think long term and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
Jeff Bezos
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