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  1. Virginia Woolf _ Mrs. Dalloway

    Well, I've had my fun; I've had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms-his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought-making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share-it smashed to atoms.
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  2. Dava Sobel _ Longitude: The True Story of a

    Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.
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  3. Dava Sobel _ Longitude: The True Story of a

    He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch."
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  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.
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  5. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    {Americans} were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.
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  6. Arthur Conan Doyle _ A Case of Identity

    Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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  7. Steve Krug _ Don't Make Me Think: A Common

    Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.
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  8. Humphrey Carpenter _ J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

    You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
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  9. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge.
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  10. Rick Warren _ The Purpose Driven Life: What

    You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn't know it's purpose, and the invention itself wouldn't be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner's manual could reveal it's purpose.
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  11. Nikola Tesla _ My Inventions

    The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.
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  12. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.
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