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• Mother is the invention of necessity.
• Necessity is a Mother -- no invention!
• Necessity is the mother of inventio
• The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B
• Mater artium necessitas. [Necessity is the mother of invention].
• Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning the Epicureans, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xx...