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Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.


Katelyn S. Irons


#creativity #inspirational #invention #inspirational

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.


Pierre Bayle


#aptly #author #being #book #first

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.


Henry Bessemer


#capacity #certainly #days #did #does

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.


Thomas Edward Brown


#calling #comes #countrymen #field #giving

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.


Henry Charles Carey


#consumers #diminish #due #food #increase

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.


Northrop Frye


#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.


Ninon de L'Enclos


#feminine #invention #masculine #nothing #virtue

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.


Alfred Marshall


#commodities #increased #inventions #labour #man

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.


Ethel Merman


#appropriate #discipline #inventions #player #such

There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.


Bill Pullman


#bit #british #definitely #different #exist






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