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Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Robert Byrne
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Charles F. Kettering
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas A. Edison
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Eric Hoffer
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Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped.

George Orwell
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Doubt is the father of invention. -Galileo Galilei
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Billy Connolly
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The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Robert Brustein
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The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. -Joel Hildebrand
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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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Christ never existed, but is an invention of the Church.

Luigi Cascioli
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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' -James Naismith
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Invention is the mother of necessity.

Thorstein Veblen
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The Invention of Love.

Ben Brantley
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. -Ignazio Silone
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Northrop Frye
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This is the latest invention that you have invented.

Christian Vieri
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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. -David Leavitt
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An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

Rutherford B. Hayes
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Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.

Willy Wonka
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. -Douglas Engelbart
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Marriage is a wonderful invention, but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit!

Billy Connelly
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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg
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So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. -Chris Hadfield
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The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Craig Mchugh
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He is simply an invention.

The Centre
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. -Carolyn Wells
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Roger Von Oech
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It never happened. It's an invention of some irresponsible writer.

Jeffrey Loria
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You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun. -Brandee Bryant
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