#venti

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates. ↗

— Stanley Marcus

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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#curse #destiny #divine-intervention #fate #fortune

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#allows #because #camera #digital #great

The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle. ↗

— Sheila Stubbs

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#creativity #invention #originality #writing #creativity

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. ↗

— David Mamet

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I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. ↗

— John le Carre

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