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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Peace
Martin Amis

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
Law and Lawyers
Azarias

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

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent
Truth
William Blake

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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Invention and Inventor
Bertolt Brecht

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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Scandal
Paul Chatfield

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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
Improvement
Charles Caleb Colton

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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
Inspiration
William Congreve

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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Uncategorised
Norman Cousins

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If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Life and Living
Anthony J. D'Angelo

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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
Science and Scientists
Emily Dickinson

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Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
Existence
Coleman Dowell

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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Invention and Inventor
Charles H. Duell

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Music
Lawrence Durrell

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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Invention and Inventor
Thomas A. Edison

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Work
Thomas A. Edison

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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Poetry and Poets
Gustave Flaubert

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Fear is a great inventor.
Invention and Inventor
French Proverb

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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Dictators and Dictatorship
R. Buckminster Fuller

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Doubt is the father of invention.
Doubt
Galileo Galilei

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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
Diplomacy
David Lloyd George

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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Stupidity
Remy De Gourmont

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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Invention and Inventor
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun