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• That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. — Joseph Barbera
• People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is… — John le Carre
• The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors. — Donald Sadoway
• By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged… — Lewis Mumford
• I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend… — Christiaan Barnard
• The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis… — Karl Popper
• Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But… — Dan Barker
• If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We… — C.S. Lewis
• One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round… — Unknown Author
• We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new… — George W. Bush
• The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of… — Francois Jacob
• Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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