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(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) "have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours. ↗


— Bruce Frankel


#inspirational #motivational #reinvention #retirement #successful-aging

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ↗


— Agatha Christie


#laziness #trouble

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. ↗


— William James


#invention #life

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water. ↗


— Akira Kurosawa


#humanity #humankind #invention #nature #science

We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it. ↗


— Françoise Gilot


#invention #picasso #nature

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace? ↗


— Thomas Day


#boast #distinguish #graces #inhabitants #inventions

Life is composed of different inventions. ↗


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


#different #inventions #life

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ↗


— Thomas A. Edison


#any #anything #came #come #did

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


— Lord Byron


#best #best intentions #bodies #intentions #inventions

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. ↗


— Lee Child


#dawn #goes #invention #probably #recent






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