Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion … - Dorothy Thompson

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A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

Dorothy Thompson

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

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