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«If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress»
«I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
arises, directly, idleness, invention, laziness, possibly, The Mother
«It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind»
«Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.»
«Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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Inventions
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devise, devises, devising, direct, invention, inventions, lacking, simple, subtleties, subtlety, superfluous
«It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Genius,
Politics
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American Constitution, ample, enduring, fertility, institutions, invention, political institutions, rooted, shelter, The Genius
«In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world»
«I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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Action,
Belief,
Compassion,
Dignity,
Ideas,
Inventions,
Purpose
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Action The, Human dignity, Human heart, invention, national, The Source
«I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.»
«Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Literature
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anticipates, Balzac, century, copy, invention, largely, literature, Moulds, nineteenth, nineteenth century
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