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gunpowder

«We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.»
«What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.»
«The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air»
«I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.»
«And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?»
«The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing»
«The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion»
«The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.»