Taylor Swift - Quotes

 This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. 

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Kurt Vonnegut - Quotes

 We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. 

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Stella - Quotes

 David:
And what about Madonna, is she like a virgin or is she the material girl? I mean this girl's had more re-inventions than Thomas Edison.
Michael:
She's had more boyfriends than Madonna!
Michael:
I like English muffins.
David:
Totally.
 

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Mary Shelley - Quotes

 Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. 

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Rodney Stark - Quotes

 That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.  

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Thomas More - Quotes

 It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. 

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Duane Michals - Quotes

 Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man 

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John Larson - Quotes

 Did you ever think about the creation of the flame-thrower? Someone, somewhere, at some time must have been sitting on his porch, and said, thoughtfully, 'I want to set him on fire.' gesturing to his neighbor. His friend who sat beside him and happened to be handy with tools said, 'I can do that.' Thus, we have a flame thrower. 

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Akira Kurosawa - Quotes

 People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water. 

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William James - Quotes

 Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. 

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Nikola Tesla - Quotes

 The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. 

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Tennessee Williams - Quotes

 It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable. 

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Toba Beta - Quotes

 Scientists may have sophisticated laboratories,

But never forget 'eureka' was inspired in a bathtub. 

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Toba Beta - Quotes

 The way of war

was the invention

of heavenly beings. 

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Diane Setterfield - Quotes

 When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void. 

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