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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. – Andre Maurois

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. – 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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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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The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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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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