Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
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Architecture is invention.
Oscar Niemeyer
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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We should have more invention.
Nathan Myhrvold
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung
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There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
Vernon Lee
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I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.
Lily King
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.
James Naismith
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
Abraham Lincoln
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway
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His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
Ernest Hemingway
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When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears; A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, Just as the sapience of an author's brain, Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.
William Cowper
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
Thomas A. Edison
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
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The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
Albert Einstein
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It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.
will.i.am
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
William James
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But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Lord Byron
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According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
Etgar Keret
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He was essentially a quiet man, a man who never wrote letters…
R. M. Williams
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The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
Nicholas Murray Butler