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The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
- Henry Charles Carey
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Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.
- Tomas Luis de Victoria
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I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.
- Shuji Nakamura
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Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.
- Douglas Rushkoff
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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
- Norman MacCaig
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
- J. C. Ryle
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
- J. C. Ryle
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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.
- Lascelles Abercrombie
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In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
- Paul Watzlawick
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In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has looked. Phase One is really the Ford story. Function and production were the most important considerations. The automobile was an invention, and it looked like one.
- Raymond Loewy
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
- Whitney M. Young
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
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After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time.
- Andrea Pirlo
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I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
- Alanna Ubach
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If it wasn't for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think of my invention.
- Zhou Qunfei
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
- Henri Poincare
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
- Walter Jon Williams
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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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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
- Pierre Bayle
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I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of a Sears, Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay.
- Gene Autry
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Failure is your invention.
- Sophia Amoruso
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Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
- Ninon de L'Enclos
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I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.
- Ethan Canin
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
- Tanith Lee
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We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to break up NATO.
- Malcolm Nance
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The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.
- John Bruton
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I wish I owned stock in Nicorette. I love Nicorette. Best invention ever.
- Justin Theroux
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If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.
- Nell Scovell
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Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.
- Townsend Harris
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It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
- Michael Servetus
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Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
- Jamie Lawson
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
- Thorstein Veblen
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The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its mineral springs were supposed to be good for you. This was before the invention of bran. In the 20th century, Cheltenham grew into an active municipality.
- Edith Pearlman
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I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
- Thomas Heatherwick
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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.
- Henry George
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The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
- George Wald
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Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
- John Gresham Machen
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The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have to iterate quickly, and you should be prepared to fail. Because things often don't go as planned.
- Boyan Slat
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
- Remy de Gourmont
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With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.
- Melissa Rosenberg
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Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
- Nicolas Roeg
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To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that was dependent on the automobile.
- Edward Burtynsky
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One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.
- James Gunn
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
- Roger von Oech
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Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.
- Henry Petroski
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The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the kitchen!
- Laura Whitmore
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What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
- Marc Davis
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Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
- James Dyson
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The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.
- Joe Gebbia
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Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?
- Rachel Hollis
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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.
- Joshua Reynolds
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
- Edward Hopper
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
- Iain McGilchrist
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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
- Alison Gopnik
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
- Ivar Giaever
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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
- Mikhail Kalashnikov
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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
- James Naismith
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
- Fridtjof Nansen
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The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
- Ha-Joon Chang
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Necessity, the mother of invention.
- George Farquhar
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There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
- Helen Frankenthaler
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I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
- Terry Pratchett
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
- Plato
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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.
- Ernest Hemingway
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As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
- Benjamin Franklin
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
- William Shakespeare
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
- Mary Shelley
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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
- John B. S. Haldane
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I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
- Dean Kamen
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A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
- Dean Kamen
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
- Michel Foucault
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
- Bill Watterson
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Getting caught is the mother of invention.
- Robert Byrne
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Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
- Germaine Greer
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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
- Tom Clancy
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I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
- Lefty Gomez
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I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
- Ray Kurzweil
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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
- Tim O'Reilly
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Our most valuable resources - creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention - are, in fact, unlimited.
- David Grinspoon
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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
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
- John Berger
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
- Jonathan Swift
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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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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
- Douglas Coupland
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
- Orson Welles
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
- Orson Welles
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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.
- John Adams
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.
- Jeff Bezos
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
- Billy Connolly
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Doubt is the father of invention.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.
- Paul Rand
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Architecture is invention.
- Oscar Niemeyer
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