"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."
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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."
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"The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention."
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"History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions."
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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."
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"The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention."
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"For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions."
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"I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent."
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"The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn."
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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."
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"Nor age so eat up my invention."
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"Invention breeds invention."
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"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."
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"Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best"
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"History is the invention of historians."
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"...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know"
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"How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies."
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"There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention."
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"Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension."
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"Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood."
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