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«Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.»
«Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.»
«The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.»
«The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.»
«Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later»
«Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it»
«Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them»
«It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.»
«In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.»