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At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists. Sophie Hunger

Today Conflict School Invention Finished Took Everything Way Pleasure Find Some Invented Point Shape Had True Nobody Identity Accepting Been Exists Realised Really Initially Suddenly Fundamental Thing

The Indian economy has declined because of the peculiar Indian 'invention' of that perfidious financial derivative called Participatory Notes, or PNs, otherwise known as the crony/crooked facilitator for black-money-based portfolio investment. No other country would think of such a derivative. Subramanian Swamy

Financial Invention Country Think Other Otherwise Would Indian Investment Participatory Economy Known Because Notes Declined Derivative Portfolio Peculiar

Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study. Sue Monk Kidd

Time Book Invention Frame Back Hung Outline Outlines Wings Voices Part Study Around Due Time Frame Done Six Moving Them Forth Created Separate Sweeping Strangest Large Each Ever

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

Me Invention Imagination Carefully Wild Everyone Relentlessly Calculated Like Looks Because Felt Always Controlled Going Quite Actually

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. Townsend Harris

Invention Become Distant Those Countries Since Like Hand Near

I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective. Trevor Paglen

Vision Perspective Invention Automation Think Deal Than Bigger Much

My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for the Money' and The Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' - these records that have a story - even if it's not a literal story - because of how they're sequenced and flow. It's like a novel with sound. Ty Segall

Money Invention Society Favorite Parachute Pretty Kinks Pretty Things Only Records Like Sorrow Because How Mothers Sound Green Literal Story Even Novel Village Things Flow Preservation

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet. Vint Cerf

Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone. Yanis Varoufakis

Experience Invention Design Enormous Faults Between Least Continents Labour American Did Difference Predicament Much European Eurozone Two

My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film. Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Alone Time History Invention First Ocean Back Air Out Diving Had Allowed He Freely First Time Tested Been His Source Very Pioneer Jacques Which Little Grandfather Scuba Exploration Explored Swim Captured Film Portable Humans

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com? Douglas Coupland

People World Result Internet Invention Looking Starving Considerably Destroyed Wounded About Least End Up End Result Irony China Whose Things

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