Doubt is the father of invention.
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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.
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Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
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Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
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Human subtlety 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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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried
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An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos
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Necessity, the mother of invention
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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt
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Want is the mistress of invention
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?
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The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but it's her child invention that's the real dangerous one.
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Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much nearer the truth.
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Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
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(On sleep) Is it just the interval of life rudely interrupted by the static of having to please the boss at home or the one at the office or is it the waking state of cosmic beings where consciousness is just a human invention?
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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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