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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. - Mark Twai

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. – Mark Twain

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. – Mark Twain

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Humorous
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Mark Twain
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. – Mark Twain

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Patriotism
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain

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Other Quotes from
Inventing, Inventions
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I dont mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I dont even mind using someones reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. – Joseph Newcomer

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Inventing, Inventions

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Inventing, Inventions

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. – Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Inventing, Inventions

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. – Albert Gyorgyi

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Inventing, Inventions

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. – Pat Buchanan

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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. – Richard Dawkins

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design