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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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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. – Bertolt Brecht

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You dont need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured. – Bertolt Brecht

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

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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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