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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The...

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Quote by Charles F. Kettering about invention, use, need

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has...

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about invention, capitalism, civilization

The public, who consume the new commodity or profit by...

The public, who consume the new commodity or profit by the new invention, are much better judges of its merit than the government can be.

Quote by Charles Babbage about invention, judges, merit, public

The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite...

The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about invention, society, poetry, history, state, world

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant...

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Quote by John Adams about invention, imagination, country, man

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about invention, capitalism, civilization, being, people

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about invention, events, writers

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It...

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about television, habits, invention, home, house, change, people

The snooze bar is the greatest invention by man.

The snooze bar is the greatest invention by man.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about invention, man

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some...

Quote by John Dos Passos about invention, originality, writers, writing, world, time

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity or even patented for himself must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

Quote by James Payn about man, invention, poverty, humanity, good, good luck, life

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an...

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Quote by Michel Foucault about people, invention, thinking, end, man

If God wouldn't existed, He should be invented.

If God wouldn't existed, He should be invented.

Quote by François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire about god

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies...

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Quote by William Blake about truth, bad luck, bad

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about invention, poetry

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy...

Quote by M. H. Abrams about tests, voice, ability

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter...

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Quote by Francis Bacon about moral, judges, affair, people

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing...

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about age, olderness

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers, experience, hope, things, life

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is...

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

Quote by Julie Christie about marriage, people

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