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• I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Years, Sound

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• The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

  Seth Godin

  Creative, Answers, Findings

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• With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.

  Brittany Murphy

  Technology, People, Scary

  Interview with Drew Barrymore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 21, 2009.

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• When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

  Bill Buxton

  Tools, Helping, Description

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• There is no re-inventing the wheel.

  Sean Penn

  Wheels

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• I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

  Suzanne Vega

  Character, Stories, Making Up

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• You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'

  David Keirsey

  New York, Thinking, Light

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• If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.

  Tim Pratt

  Love, Romantic, War

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• The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Heart, Idols

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• Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Engineering, Contradiction, Resolution

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• The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Training, Important, No Hope

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• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  Alastair Campbell

  Tombstone, Flower, Long Ago

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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• The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

  Peter Zumthor

  Comforting, Done, Lines

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• It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

  Friedrich Engels

  Brain, Facts, Discovering

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “On Religion”, p.267, Courier Corporation

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• Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

  Albert Memmi

  Hands, Racism, Psychology

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as our misery comes from our belief, and not from the thing believed, it is necessary to be on the watch, so as not to be deceived by false guides. Sensation contains no intelligence or belief, but is a mere disturbance of the matter, called agitation, which produces mind, and is ready to receive the seed of error. Ever since man was created, there has been an element called error which has been busy inventing answers for every sensation.

  Phineas Quimby

  Health, Men, Errors

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• Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things didn't come from government. Our world is going to get better and better, as long as we keep the politicians from screwing it up.

  David Boaz

  Our World, Government, Creating

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• Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

  Anthony Kiedis

  New Things

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• Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Stars, Men, Gaza Strip

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• America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

  Israel Shenker

  Morning, Past, America

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.

  Don DeLillo

  Powerful, Mean, Past

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Stars, Science, Thinking

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• The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

  Ben Elton

  Real, Doe, World

  Ben Elton (2008). “Stark: Satirical Thriller”, p.26, Random House

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• Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

  Ulrich Beck

  Government, Democracy, Guarantees

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• So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

  Peter Carey

  Ideas, People, Firsts

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