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• Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Judging, Age, Literature

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• The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Analysis, Logical

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.7, Routledge

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• Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.

  Gerda Lerner

  Struggle, Past, Men

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• I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Needs, Said, Know How

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Design, Effort

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.92, Penguin

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• Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

  Daniel Handler

  Real, Eye, Thinking

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• There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

  George Orwell

  People, Phrases, Trouble

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• And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

  Samuel Beckett

  Heart, Thinking, Escaping

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

  Richard Bach

  Song, Years, Giving

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• The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

  Jeff Bezos

  Stubborn, Flexible, Hard

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• The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Character, Civilization, Games

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• If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most important challenge of our times.

  Wade Davis

  Animal, Flames, Opposites

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• Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.

  Paul Goodman

  Stupid, Communication, Mean

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.8, New York Review of Books

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• Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Thinking, Machines

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• Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

  Don DeLillo

  Ruins, Scales, Persistent

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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• Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.

  Claudia Gray

  Guy, Wanted, Like Me

  Claudia Gray (2009). “Evernight”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Stories, Pleasure

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.233, Penguin

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• The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Rich, Glory, Articles

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Russian Literature”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Intuition, Way, Scientist

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.134, Macmillan

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• ... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there

  Brian Setzer

  Music, Rocks, Track

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• What if I never stop inventing?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  What If, Ifs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

  David Copperfield

  Views, Principles, Point Of View

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

  Edward Hirsch

  Development, Metaphor, Form

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.

  Peter Travers

  Suicide, College, Two

  "Damsels in Distress" by Peter Travers, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, Two, Generations

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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