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I'm an inventor.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.