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"Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma." »E. B. White
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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." »Octavio Paz
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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, June 8, 1990
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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." »Agatha Christie
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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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"Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved." »Ann Douglas
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"Necessity is the mother of invention." »Anonymous
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"invention is the mother of necessity." »Thorstein Veblen
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"O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention." »William Shakespeare
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"Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention." »Margaret Mead
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"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed." »Tom Clancy
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"The 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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"I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope." »Sextus Julius Frontinus
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"Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world." »John Owen
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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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"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." »Mitch Ratliffe
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"Human subtelty 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." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative." »Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951
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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." »Pierre Bayle
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"I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again." »Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
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"Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention." »Whitney Moore Young
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"The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own." »Joel H. Hildebrand
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"Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry." »This Is Spinal Tap
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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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"Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man’s invention! It is the making up of human benefit!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." »Adam Smith
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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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"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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