#invention

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

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We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

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