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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. – Bertolt Brecht

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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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The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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