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    Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

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    Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

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    Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

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    Mothers are the necessity of invention.

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    Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

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    Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

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    Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate trades that were more difficult or even impossible by barter alone.

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    My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

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    Necessity, the mother of invention.

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    Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

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    Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

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    Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

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    Necessity, mother of invention.

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    Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

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    Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

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    Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

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    O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

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    Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

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    Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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    One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

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    Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

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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

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    One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

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    One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

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    Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

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    Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

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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.

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    Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

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    Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

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    Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

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    Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

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    Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

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    Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

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    Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

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    Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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    Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

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    Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.

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    Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

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    The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

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    The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

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    The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought

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    The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.

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    The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

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    The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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    The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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    The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.

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    The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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    The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

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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.

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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.