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

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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 right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a mans house is a monopoly. – Daniel Webster

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