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| necessity is the mother of invention | нужда всему научит (дословно: Необходимость-мать изобретательства) |
| necessity is the mother of invention | нужда научит мышей ловить |
| necessity is the mother of invention | голь на выдумки хитра (those in need have to he inventive, contriving, and always are) |
| necessity is the mother of invention | голь на выдумки хитра (дословно: Необходимость-мать изобретательства) |
| necessity is the mother of invention | необходимость – мать изобретательства |
| necessity is the mother of invention | нужда научит горшки обжигать |
| necessity is the mother of invention | нужда научит калачи есть (need (and poverty) makes a man inventive, industrious (poverty and unemployment forced peasants of northern Russia – in the 18th century and earlier- to migrate and find work in the southern parts of the country where local people used to grow wheat – not rye – and therefore had white bread called " 'kalach'')) |