#invent

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. ↗

— Keith Richards

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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them. ↗

— Loni Anderson

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I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice. ↗

— Russell Banks

#could #grows #having #hear #her

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure. ↗

— Julie Christie

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I invented the cordless extension cord. ↗

— Steven Wright

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I like to experiment a lot and invent things. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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