Quotes with invention

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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barry Commoner The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Daniel Webster The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • John Banville The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Henry Miller There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Irwin This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Plato Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Norman Cousins War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
    Who Speaks for Man (1953) p. 318
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Barry Unsworth We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Barry Diller What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Cornelia Otis Skinner Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    American actress and author (1899 - 1979)
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  • C. A. R. Hoare Due credit must be paid to the genius of the designers of ALGOL 60 who included recursion in their language and enabled me to describe my invention so elegantly to the world.
    The Emperors Old Clothes
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • Ambrose Bierce Telephone. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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