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• Without invention nothing is well-spaced.

  William Carlos Williams

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• Necessity… the mother of invention.

  Plato

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

  Diane Setterfield

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• You can’t name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

  David Hockney

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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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• Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.

  Mario Stinger

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• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  Yusuf Hamied

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• My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things’ ‘Parachute’ and ‘S.F. Sorrow’ and The Mothers of Invention’s ‘We’re Only in It for the Money’ and The Kinks’ ‘Village Green Preservation Society’ – these records that have a story – even if it’s not a literal story – because of how they’re sequenced and flow. It’s like a novel with sound.

  Ty Segall

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• The book is man’s best invention so far.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

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  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.

  Nikola Tesla

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• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  Gabriel García Márquez

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• [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I’m sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  W.Daniel Hillis

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• Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

  Ignazio Silone

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• Getting caught is the mother of invention.

  Robert Byrne

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• The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

  Friedrich List

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• Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

  Fridtjof Nansen

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• This play is truly a great invention, and we’re having a great time doing it eight times a week.

  Bill Irwin

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• Community colleges are one of America’s great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  Barbara Mikulski

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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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• 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.

  George Wald

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