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Quote by Andre Maurois
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity --

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love. – Andre Maurois

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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. – Andre Maurois

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. – Andre Maurois

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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. – Francis Picabia

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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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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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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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