Community Patent Convention

Famous quotes containing the words community, patent and/or convention:

“The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)