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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo Da Vinci
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Painter
Inspirational
Knowledge
Causes
Invention
Law
Logic
Source
True Knowledge
Laws
True
Own
Cause
Without
Necessity
Effect
Her
Nor
She
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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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Photographer
Automobile
Dependent
Invention
Figured
Suburb
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller
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Writer
Fabric
Invention
Liars
Lying
Outrageous
Sincere
Truthful
Writing
Admittedly
Liar
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Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible.
Maggie Carey
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Impossible
Invention
Waiting
Best Family Me
Phone
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Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Novelist
Capacity
Ideas
Invention
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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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Break Up
Invention
Nato
Collective
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
Robert Fitzgerald
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Poet
Bob
Dylan
Guitar
Heard
Invention
Meant To Be
Song
Tradition
Belongs
Bob Dylan
Meant
Homer
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Technology has long been the driver of growth in the music business from the invention of lacquers, eight-track players, vinyl, cassettes and CDs.
Troy Carter
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Cds
Invention
Music Business
Business Technology Music
Driver
Business Music Technology
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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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Scientist
Invention
Late
Long Way
Seems
Authentic
Corpse
In Fact
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The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.
Rick Warren
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Pastor
Invention
Purpose
Way
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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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Mathematician
Avoiding
Infinite
Invention
Useful
Combinations
Consists
Minority
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Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
William Goldman
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Novelist
Invention
Kissing
Passionate
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It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Joseph Haydn
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Composer
Genius
Invention
Produce
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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
Plato
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Philosopher
Believe
Invention
Mind
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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
Michael Graves
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Architect
Architecture
Invention
Moral
Painting
Venture
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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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Scientist
Available
Believe
Drug
Essentials
Invention
Life Saving
Paid
Payment
Royalty
Suitable
Believe I Believe I Believe That
Essential
Freely
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The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.
Jay Inslee
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Governor Of Washington
Gutenberg
Invention
Printing
Printing Press
Arguably
Fastest
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Max Ernst
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Painter
Amusement
Discovery
Felt
Invention
Plastic
Reality
Time Me Painting
Time Reality Me
Decorative
Either
Every Time
Revelation
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emil Cioran
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Conversation
Essentials
Invention
Middle
Pay
Silence
Speech
Brings
Dearly
Reveals
Sudden
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We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
Jimmy Carl Black
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Drummer
Frank
Invention
Mother
Song
Thinking
Zappa
Complex
Cover
Mothers
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Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.
Grace King
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Author
Patience
Invention
Needs
World
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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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Film Director
Death
Accelerate
Deals
Familiar
Fear Of Change
Form
Invention
Marketing
Produces
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I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the invention and freeness within a structure.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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Capture
Invention
Intended
Nuances
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Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.
C. S. Lewis
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Novelist
Conscious
Invention
Poet
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Tackling climate change is not a luxury for the good times: for good and bad times it has become a necessity - but necessity is the mother of invention.
Ed Davey
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Bad Times
Climate Change
Good And Bad
Invention
Luxury
Tackling
Change Good Bad
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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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Bishop Of Liverpool
Authority
Bible
Christianity
Invention
Mere
Uninspired
Volume
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Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.
Henry Petroski
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Civil Engineer
Design
Creative
Invention
Website
Bridge
Designed
Magazine
Producing
Whether
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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Joseph Conrad
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Author
Art
Life
Imagination
Truth
Existence
Invention
Supreme
Writing
Life Truth Art
Life Art Men
Does
Life Art Truth
Find
Effective
Master
Undeniable
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THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
Thomas Paine
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Author
Men
Creation
Invention
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
Orhan Pamuk
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Novelist
Appropriate
Invention
Embracing
Radically
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Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.
Israel Horovitz
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Playwright
Actors
Invention
Theater
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We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
Joseph Lancaster
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Encouragement
Beneficial
Community
Ingenious
Invention
Mechanic
Witness
Daily
Effect
Held
Institution
Inventions
Mechanics
Produced
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If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.
Peter Diamandis
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Physician
Chinese
Fireworks
Invention
Thousand
Thousand Years
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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History
Extraordinary
Humanity
Invention
Language
Share
Most
Before
Came
Possible
Makes
The History Of
Which
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All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
Jared Diamond
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Scientist
Improvement
Invention
Made
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So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
Chris Hadfield
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Astronaut
Grounded
Invention
Keys
Pride
Real
Canadians
Mission
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Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman Borlaug
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Agricultural Scientist
Men
Adam
Adam And Eve
Agriculture
Food Supply
Inability
Invention
Precarious
Survival
Ensure
Eve
Supply
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
Barry Unsworth
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Ambiguity
Doubt
Ease
Ignorance
Invention
Mixing
Absorb
Dispute
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I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
Ben Kingsley
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Actor
Invention
People
Style
Thinking
Approaches
Label
Styles
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And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.
Rich Mullins
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Singer-Songwriter
Men
Believe
Invention
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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.
Agatha Christie
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Novelist
Idleness
Invention
Laziness
Memorable
Mother
Oneself
Opinion
Thinking
Trouble
Arises
Necessity
Directly
In My Opinion
Possibly
Save
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At the end of the day, if you want to create more IP and more invention, you need to connect between research and entrepreneurs. People who are going to take a risk.
Jean-Philippe Courtois
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Invention
Research
Risk
End Of The Day Day People
Connect
Create
End Of The Day
Entrepreneurs
Ip
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I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
Errol Morris
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Film Director
Invention
Minutes
Ten
Believe People I Believe
Photographs
Lie
Realized
Ten Minutes
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One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.
Edgar Degas
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Artist
Invention
Recollection
Tyranny
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Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
Yann Martel
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Author
Invention
Using Words
World
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Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Thomas Edward Brown
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Calling
Countrymen
Invention
Pleasure
Field
Hopes
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I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
Bernard Arnault
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Businessman
Campaigns
Ideas
Invention
New Inventions
Ad
Designers
Discuss
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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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Bishop Of Liverpool
Christianity
Divine
Invention
Mere
Alteration
Revelation
Supernatural
Wrought
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Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.
Scott Pruitt
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Attorney General Of Oklahoma
Free Speech
Invention
Mankind
Printing Press
Exchange
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I'm an invention of the Internet. I'm like, the Internet went away for a few years and designed what the perfect online personality would look like and came back with me.
Milo Yiannopoulos
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Journalist
Invention
Online
Designed
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