#invent

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses. ↗

— Jim Hunt

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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

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A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

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Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. ↗

— John Berger

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