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Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong. ↗

— Robert Maxwell

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My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ↗

— John McPhee

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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions. ↗

— Ethel Merman

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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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