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Quote by Bertolt Brecht
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon

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

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What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization. – Bertolt Brecht

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Peace
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Bertolt Brecht
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People are too durable, thats their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. – Bertolt Brecht

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

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Inventing, Inventions

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

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

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Inventing, Inventions

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They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. – George Gissing

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