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"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself."
"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
"Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary."
"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."
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
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"The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer."
"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice."
"CALVIN:When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment."
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