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• Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Judging, Creative

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.9, Book Tree

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• The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

  Adolf Hitler

  Circumcision, Lost, Judaism

  "Hitler Speaks". Book by Hermann Rauschning, p. 220, 1939.

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• He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

  H. G. Wells

  Struggle, Sweat, Verbs

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• Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

  Remy de Gourmont

  War, Humanity, Idlers

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• One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Healing, Stories, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.62, North Atlantic Books

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• Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

  Eduardo J. Padron

  College, Community, Great American

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• Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Might, Dangerous, Wells

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• The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Ambition, Understanding

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

  David Cronenberg

  Ideas, Revolution, Mass

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• Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.

  Eugene Mirman

  Dream, Stupid, People

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• There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

  Ethel Merman

  Player, Discipline, Theater

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

  Spike Jonze

  Ipods, Use

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• I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

  John Waters

  Believe, Bullshit, Cop

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• The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Blow, Humanity

  "Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations".

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• But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

  Adolf Hitler

  Ideas, Sick, Brain

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

  Adolf Hitler

  Laughter, Joy, Victory

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and worst fears usually come to pass, often in fabulous ways, but their adventures feel inevitable and true-not only because Ms. Black richly imagines her people, but because she loves them. I Knew You'd Be Lovely is a lovely debut, with masterful prose and inspired invention on every page.

  Ralph Lombreglia

  Dream, Real, Adventure

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• The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Mean, Civilization, Class

  Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge

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• Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the place where you seek rebirth. When you no longer have to remember which tale of your own past is true and which is an invention, when you know that you are an invention, then is the time to seek out your home. Perhaps only when you have come to understand that can you finally reach home.

  Karen Maitland

  Home, Past, Soul

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• The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Believe, Play Time, People

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• The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

  John Seely Brown

  Business, Important, Research

  Harvard Business Review, www.wired.com. 1991.

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• A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

  Francis Picabia

  Work, Gadgets, Lasts

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• Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240

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• My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.

  Boris Johnson

  Running, Country, Strong

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• Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Marketing, Fear Of Change, Produce

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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