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> [Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/man-is-a-shrewd-inventor-and-is-ever-taking-the-hint-of-a-new-machine/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/in-my-own-time-there-have-been-inventions-of-this-sort-transparent/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frontinus/inventions-reached-their-limit-long-ago-and-i-see-no-hope-for-further/)

[Frontinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frontinus/)

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> [Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/today-every-invention-is-received-with-a-cry-of-triumph-which-soon/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

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> [It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/it-is-only-the-unimaginative-who-ever-invents-the-true-artist-is/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-land/the-test-of-an-invention-is-the-power-of-an-inventor-to-push-it/)

[Edwin Land](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-land/)

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> [Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau/interest-is-the-spur-of-the-people-but-glory-that-of-great-souls-2/)

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau/)

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> [It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-webster/it-is-no-monopoly-in-any-other-sense-than-as-a-man-s-own-house-is-a/)

[Daniel Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-webster/)

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