#invent

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No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.


Lord Mountbatten


#grew #had #harbor #invented #knowledge

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.


Donny Osmond


#coming #keep #lot #new #new stuff

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.


Thomas Paine


#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?


Chuck Palahniuk


#anyone #anything #archetypal #breakfast #freedom

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.


Chuck Palahniuk


#apply #around #been #club #created

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.


Nancy Pelosi


#every #how #improvement #inventory #lives

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.


Pablo Picasso


#alarm #clock #invented #man #necessity

I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.


Mark Pincus


#completely #haven #i #i think #imagined

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.


Henri Poincare


#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.


Terry Pratchett


#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled