Quotes with invents

  • In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

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  • Henry Ward Beecher A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Joseph Conrad An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley Every good painter invents a new way of painting.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Susan Sontag In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ronald Laing The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Mark Twain The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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