#invention

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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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

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

— Ethel Merman

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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

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[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#invention #progress #home

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love

Necessity... the mother of invention. ↗

— Plato

#mother #necessity

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. ↗

— Henry Miller

#admittedly #even #fabric #fiction #invention

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions