"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."
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"Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry"
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"Probably death is the best invention of life."
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"If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention"
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"What some people invent the rest enlarge."
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"I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer."
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"Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions"
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"The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling."
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"Religion is a good invention in times of stress."
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"Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
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"We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions."
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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."
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"His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be."
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"A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt."
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"As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly."
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"That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
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"Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven."
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"Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities."
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"By and large books are mankind's best invention."
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"The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from."
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