"The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society."

-- Edwin Land

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“I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.”
“In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.”
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”
“Never categorize yourself: Society does that to you, ..don't do it to yourself.”
“If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it”
“Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.”
“Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.”
“You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug of desperation, trying not to be excited, maybe this is it, and it's usually freaks and you want to shout I'm not like you.”

Source : Sandra Newman (2002). “The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel”, Vintage

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