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Octavio Paz
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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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Octavio Paz
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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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E. B. White
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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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Agatha Christie
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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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Logan Pearsall Smith
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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention???s stay;Invention, Nature???s child, fled step-dame Study???s blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,???Fool,??? said my Muse to me; ???look in thy heart and write.???
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Anon.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Tom Clancy
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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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Joel Hildebrand
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The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
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Billy Connolly
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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William Shakespeare
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O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
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Douglas Engelbart
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
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David Frost
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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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Ambrose Bierce
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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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Sextus Julius Frontinus
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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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Dave Barry
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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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Mitch Ratliffe
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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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Leonardo DaVinci
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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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John Owen
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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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Jean Piaget
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If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vi., Line 498.
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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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William Shakespeare
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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
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Whitney Moore Young
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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
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Leonardo DaVinci
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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This Is Spinal Tap
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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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Joel H. Hildebrand
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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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Susanne Langer
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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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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
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"Invention breeds invention." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mother is the invention of necessity.
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
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Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
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Getting caught is the mother of invention.
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Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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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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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for remov
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For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the i
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"Women's virtue is man's greatest INVENTION" - Skinner
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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.
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I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.
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"Mothers are the necessity of invention." - - Calvin
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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
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"Okay, invention exchange..." -- Dr. Forrester
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"Our invention exchange today is...you!"
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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitud
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