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264 Inventor Quotes

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Attention Command Common Common Things
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Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

Across Christ Could Fellow
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God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.

Cannot Come Creep Doubts
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We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Almost Among Arts Become
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I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

Allow Anyone Badly Difference
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Been Education Forgotten Learned
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Anything Child Give Him
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Machines Men Problem Real
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Attacks Early Helpless Individual
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Always Came Decisions Design
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Books Great Love Reading
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

Change Environment Old Try
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Act Affect Again Consequences
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

Amount Carried Important More
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Always Best Circumstances Failure
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

Drop Else Everything Interesting
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

Act Area Being Directing
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Another Church Get Kind
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Bothered College Faith Freshman
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Basically Been Behave Believe
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Improve Know Prefer Religion
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Along Coming Get Quantity
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Apply Behavior Benefits Changing
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Down Falls Individual Insist
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Abandoned Continue Deteriorate Environment
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Failed Found Just Ways
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Because Dressed Like Look
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Great Great Ideas Ideas Muscles
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Because Just Just Because Mean
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Consists Worth You Your
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Beings Ethics Evolution Goal
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Good Imagination Invent Junk
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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Accomplish Hell Here No Rules
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
Better Find Way There
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Great Great Idea Idea Lot
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Around Body Brain Carry
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Blunders Forward He Notice
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Favor Friends Friendship Kings
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Close Did Failures Gave
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Discontent Failure First Man
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Abandon Absolutely Appalled Brain
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius Inspiration Ninety-Nine Ninety-Nine Percent
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

After Ahead Decided Fully
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Everything He Him Waits
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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