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

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

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 know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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What weve got here is a failure to communicate. – Donn Pearce

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But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun. – Cesar Romero

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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. – Margaret Cavendish

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