What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
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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.
In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine.. Will be ready for our enemies.. That remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.
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In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical.
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Experience certainly has long known how to think of some cheer for the troubled, but, as is natural, it does not know a joy that passes all understanding. Experience knows all the many inventions of the human heart, but a rapture that did not arise in any man's heart it does not know. ** p. 263
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
Like most artists who have made an invention of some kind, he tends to overplay the significance of his own and goes on about it as though it were a Rosetta Stone, with whose help all representation can be rescued from one-eyed falsehood.
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Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
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Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.
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I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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