#venti

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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.


Joshua Reynolds


#combination #come #deposited #gathered #images

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.


Dontrelle Willis


#conventional #guy #i #never

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.


John Yoo


#al #applying #contemplated #conventions #different

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.


Bell Hooks


#change

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.


Pam Houston


#fear #growth #inertia #self-invention #change

Well we are nothing if not re-inventive. With every life experience we learn what to not do ever again and how to adapt to our current situations. We are always learning about ourselves and changing. I seriously don’t know anyone that has it all figured out, and if there is I want to punch them in the face.


Allison B. Levine


#inventive #learning #change

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.


Molly Caldwell Crosby


#death-and-dying #death-and-sickness #disease #disease-prevention #history

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.


Steve Krug


#design #invention #work #design

Leo: "So...giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter." Piper: "Is that another joke?


Rick Riordan


#piper-mclean #psycho-babysitter #venti #eating

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.


Agatha Christie


#laziness #trouble