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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. ↗

— Pete Townshend

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Mothers are the necessity of invention. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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Necessity, the mother of invention. ↗

— George Farquhar

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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now. ↗

— Sam Farr

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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ↗

— Billy Connolly

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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. ↗

— Michel Foucault

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I was always inventing characters and making up stories. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

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