Own Invention Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man…
— Abraham Lincoln
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As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful…
— Nicolaas Bloembergen
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Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In…
— James Hutton
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Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if…
— Colleen McCullough
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
— Tanith Lee
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The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire…
— William Godwin
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men…
— Thomas Hobbes
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…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your…
— Warren Ellis
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Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp…
— Rachel Caine
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
— John Keats
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The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way…
— Joel Coen
Who Wrote These Own Invention Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Own Invention Quotes as follows: