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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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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

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If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. ↗

— Michael Porter

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