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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
James Naismith
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James Naismith
Canadian
Inventor
Born:
Nov 6
,
1861
Died:
Nov 28
,
1939
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One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.
James Gunn
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Doubt is the father of invention.
Ambrose Bierce
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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da Vinci
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs
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Death
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Change
Destination
People
Old
Invention
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling
Innovation
Invention
Power
Imagination
Only
Arguably
Never
Shared
Empathize
Envision
Most
Enables
Human
Experiences
Human Capacity
Transformative
Which
Capacity
Us
Therefore
Uniquely
Whose
Humans
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato
Mother
Invention
Necessity
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
Ernest Hemingway
You
Invention
Enough
Those
Alive
All Things
Immortality
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True
New
Know
Well
Make
Well Enough
Truer
Exist
Than
New Thing
Representation
Anything
Happened
Cannot
Your
Whole
Thing
Things
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
Benjamin Franklin
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Opportunity
Invention
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Others
Ours
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Generously
Freely
Any
Should
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Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
Herbert Hoover
Good
Democracy
Good And Evil
Opportunity
Evil
Invention
Living
Every
Static
Both
Idea
New
Force
New Idea
Offers
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Orson Welles
Editing
Cinema
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Eloquence
Critics
Directing
Editing Room
Achieved
Room
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