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the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Quotations regarding 'Inventions'

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A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.
Emily Greene Balch, American Educator (1867-1961)
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.
Henry Bessemer, English Scientist (1813-1898)
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
Lionel Blue, British Clergyman (1930-  )
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol, -
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron, British Poet (1788-1824)
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Kenneth Clark, British Author
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
Thomas Day, British Author (1748-1789)
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney, American Cartoonist (1901-1966)
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell, British Writer (1912-1990)
One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
James Dyson, British Designer (1947-  )
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor (1847-1931)
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist (1821-1880)
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
Lukas Foss, German Composer (1922-  )
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Arnold H. Glasow, -
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer (1929-  )
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
Elias Hicks, American Clergyman (1748-1830)
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet (1828-1906)
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet (1828-1906)
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
Lynn Johnston, American Cartoonist (1947-  )
Life is composed of different inventions.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian Inventor (1919-  )
 
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