Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety… — King C. Gillette Copy Share Image
The arts not only imbue our sense of sight, balance, movement, touch and hearing, they also lift our logical minds - the… — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo? — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention. — John Keats Copy Share Image
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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