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Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. ↗

— Ross Perot

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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers. ↗

— John Sladek

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I am an inventor of music. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising. ↗

— Craig Charles

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He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. ↗

— Dava Sobel

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It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that. ↗

— Mark Twain

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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. ↗

— Harry Seidler

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My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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