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... in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and f... ...arable part of reality. In many celebrated cases they even induced works of art or inventions or scientific discoveries (all adaptations of old, d... ... The answer is: it depends. Certain cultures and societies encourage suicide. Both Japanese kamikaze and Jewish martyrs were extolled for their sui... ... The answer is: it depends. Certain cultures and societies encourage suicide. Both Japanese kamikaze and Jewish martyrs were extolled for their sui... ...ive intellectual property laws that afflict many rich countries nowadays. Very few inventions have forced "established companies from their dominan... ...vid Kelly, studies, in "The Art of Innovation", the history of some of the greater inventions to have been incubated in IDEO, a prominent Californi... ...eeds in convincing his victims rather effectively. When he does believe in his own inventions – he fails miserably at trapping his fellow men. Much... ... The answer is: it depends. Certain cultures and societies encourage suicide. Both Japanese kamikaze and Jewish martyrs were extolled for their sui... ...Nobuhiko Hibara of Columbia University demonstrated this effect convincingly in the Japanese banking system in his November 2001 draft paper titled ...

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...r cross the finish line unless he or she first begins the race. The great inventions of the world never would have occurred unless the inventor mad... ...his integ' rity. He was an inventor, a writer and a thinker. Some of his inventions include the World Game, the Dymaxion Airocean World Map, his de... ... ful tool. On one of my trips to Japan some people were telling me of a Japanese sculptor who carved beauti, ful statues out of wood. They said he...

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...uddhism (for example “Zen and the Art of Archery”) and the Buddhism of the Japanese monk Nichiren. The first poison is the illusion that makes us... ...s fill his eyes with sleep. Is this a joke, or is it one of Ulysses’ usual inventions so he can avoid owning his responsibility in things? When his...

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...eir dispositions, are wont with considerable stir to put forward their own inventions, as experience more than sufficiently at- tests, so that if no o... ...eign government. W e may see this exemplified in the Dutch treaty with the Japanese, which I have already mentioned. 15 Spinoza CHAPTER XVII – IT IS ...

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... was able to say that “hitherto it is ques- tionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have light- ened the day’s toil of any human being.” Th... ...been worked out in various parts of the world; as, for instance, among the Japanese, Chinese, and other Ori- ental nations; likewise among the Greeks,...

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...ures, must frequently have been shewn very pretty machines, which were the inventions of such workmen, in order to facilitate and quicken their own pa... ...our. All the improvements in machinery, however, have by no means been the inventions of those who had occasion to use the ma- chines. Many improvemen... ...ery diligent and respectable author, the Marquis de Mirabeau, ‘three great inventions which have principally given sta- bility to political societies,... ...ipally given sta- bility to political societies, independent of many other inventions which have enriched and adorned them. The first is the invention... ...mproving themselves by the example of any other nation, except that of the Japanese. The policy of ancient Egypt, too, and that of the Gentoo gov- ern...

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...innovation policy in which the right to exclude others from novel and useful inventions creates a cybernetic and responsive innova- tion marketplace. ... ... Evans’s elevators. Patents then, as now, were only supposed to be given for inventions that were novel, nonobvious, and useful. Jefferson had conside... ...missing the idea “that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their ... ...have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. 10 Those who... ...ty rights. But that would be a considerable overstatement. When he says that inventions can never be the subject of property, he means a perma- nent a... ... of DVD players felt that American consumers wanted to be able to play their Japanese anime movies without buying another DVD player to do so? Or what... ... will find a brilliant account in James Lardner, Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese & the VCR Wars (New York: Norton, 1987). One needs only to scan ...

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... by the wage-earner, it were alive with the search for new methods and new inventions, filled with the spirit of freedom, and inviting the mental as w... ...e same popular objec- tion as at present to any large influx of Chinese or Japanese labor. Yet if Japan also were to become a Socialist State, the Jap... ... presumed that each Guild will be continually seeking for new processes or inventions, and will value those technical parts of scientific research whi... ...ll who have sufficient ambition and native aptitude. Science, labor-saving inventions, technical progress of all kinds, may be confidently expected to...

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...esent time undergoes rapid and abrupt changes through the evolution of new inventions. New industries spring up, and old ones are revolutionized. Cons... ... politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or ar- chaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. (ii) By an interest we also mean the point at ... ... The differences of civilization in cold and tropical regions, the special inventions, industrial and political, of peoples in the temperate regions, ... ...ption of the long road which has had to be traveled, and of the successive inventions by which the race has been brought forward in culture. We do not... ...history can possibly do. It presents us with knowledge of the succes- sive inventions by which theoretical science has been applied to the control of ... ...agery to civilization has been dependent upon intellectual discoveries and inventions, and the extent to which the things which ordinarily figure most...

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...a.’ But the Indian King had heard about King Simon and had adopted all his inventions, and added more of his Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “THE STOR... ... far, far away in the west, beyond the islands of England. That is why the Japanese call their country “Nippon,” that is “the birth of the sun.” I kno...

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... are certainly the most mediocre, the stupidest, and the most unacceptable inventions that ever sprang from the frightened brain of any human creature... ...his exile to Siberia and his wonderful es- cape down the river Amour, on a Japanese coast- ing-vessel, and about his final arrival, by way of Yokohama...

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...that a friend with whom he was talking of the self-control attained by the Japanese through their practice of the Buddhist discipline said:— “‘You mus... ...,’ said I, ‘is that possible?’ ‘Yes,’ replied he; ‘it is pos- sible to the Japanese, and ought to be possible to us.’ “On my way back I could think of... ...e sees that order and disorder, as we now recognize them, are purely human inventions. We are interested in certain types of arrangement, useful, aest...

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...gineers to the Indian, the 59 Memories and Portraits New Zealand, and the Japanese Lighthouse Boards, so that Edinburgh was a world centre for that b... ... of his professional labours that all my father’s scientific inquiries and inventions centred; *In Dr. Murray’s admirable new dictionary, I have remar... ...rticularly to Thomas Stevenson from the great number and importance of his inventions: 61 Memories and Portraits holding as the Stevensons did a Gove...