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• Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

  Ignazio Silone

  Destiny, Luck, Cowardly Acts

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• How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Littles, Graves

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.445

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• Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Mind, Great Inventions, Remember

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.6, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

  Helena Christensen

  Believe, Brilliant, I Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A weak invention of the Enemy.

  Colley Cibber

  Enemy, Weak

  Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.53

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• Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Debate

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• Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Patents, New Inventions, Sin

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1861). “Essays and Reviews”, p.74

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• Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Gay, Reality

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

  James Naismith

  Basketball, Needs, Handkerchiefs

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• Writing is the great invention of the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Writing, Great Inventions, World

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.7, Library of America

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• Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Opportunity, Dictator

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1962). “Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization”, p.227, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

  Lefty Gomez

  Tired, Pet, Goldfish

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• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience

  1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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• If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

  Angela Thirkell

  Women, Lying, Sticks

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• You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

  Shimon Peres

  Mirrors, Civilization, Knows

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• Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Filth, Insult

  Randolph Spencer Churchill, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1983). “Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

  Frederick Banting

  Book, Science, Beer

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• If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Honesty, Mean, Rich

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• Contentment: The smother of invention.

  Ethel Mumford

  Design, Contentment

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• We can invent only with memory.

  Alphonse Karr

  Memories, Recollection

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• The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

  Robert Morley

  Sports, Men, Balls

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• Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Writing, Fiction

  "Lectures on Literature".

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• Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

  Nick Bostrom

  Humanity, Needs, Machines

  "What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.

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• History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

  Voltaire

  History, Imaginative, Series

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• Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

  Elsa Maxwell

  Food, Cooking, Cocktails

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