"All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product."

-- Jared Diamond

#Improvement Quotes #Invention Quotes #Made Quotes

“The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see aheadâ€¦”
“The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.”
“I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.”

Source : "Multiculturalists Working to Undermine Western Civilization" by Philip Carl Salzman, www.gatestoneinstitute.org. December 16, 2017.
“Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...”
“Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.”
“He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most far gone. He was in the absolute, end stage - they have that wing in the hospital where they have given up on you. You can smoke pot and do anything you want. They had given up on him.”
“We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.”
“Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper”

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