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"Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
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"Do a new thing in a new way. Do it always!"

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"Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that's still rejected by current civilization."

"It is better to be creative than curious."

"Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living."

"Start the conversion process and birth your products."

"Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard."

"Stan wants to see them work the facial features, especially the smiles. He has a professional interest, from his job at Dimple. The Empathy Model he'd worked on could smile, but it was the same smile every time. Though what else did you need for checking out groceries? Put two eyes on anything and basically it looks like a face."

"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."
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"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."

"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."

"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it."

"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."

"A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love."

"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life."

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"
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