Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Th' invention all admir'd, and each how he To be th' inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd, Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible!
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I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it 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 superflu
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
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