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For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.


Jon Bon Jovi


#benjamin #benjamin franklin #constitution #credited #franklin

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.


Mikhail Kalashnikov


#invention #proud #sad #terrorists #used

Man keeps inventing things all the time.


Mikhail Kalashnikov


#keeps #man #things #time

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.


Janis Karpinski


#conventions #environment #fair #geneva #know

Mothers are the necessity of invention.


Bill Watterson


#invention #mothers #necessity

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.


Northrop Frye


#ancient #back #being #convention #due

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.


Malcolm Fraser


#also #been #communities #deal #difficult

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#intervention #invitation #learning #mistakes #experience

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.


Michael Graves


#did #i #i see #invention #moral

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.


Otto Hahn


#did #disregarding #english #first #hague






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