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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Alone, Laughter

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Today, Along

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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Auguste Rodin

Nothing, Rediscover

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

Wish, Universe, Apple

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Abdul Kalam

Work, Great, Courage

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.
Eminem

Saying, Offensive

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost

Remember, Nobody, Meant

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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison

Good, Junk, Pile

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

Truth, Bad, Lies

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire

God, Him, Necessary

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Won, Sell

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

God, Him, Necessary

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

Best, Future, Predict

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville

End, Revolution, Difficult

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon

Business, Judge, Young

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter

Human, Real, America

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey

Good, Everything, Before

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Stendhal

Ability, Historian

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.
Temple Grandin

Mind, Problems, Solve

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Design, Eyes

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren G. Bennis

Cannot, Themselves, Ideas

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
Keith Richards

Life, Rock, Along

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Around, Wait, Until

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.
Jerry Saltz

Life, Personal, Year

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
Emile M. Cioran

Real, Far, Since

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

After, Others, Rather

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
Thomas Sankara

Future, Today, Able

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