The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure… And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the… — Laura Whitmore Copy Share Image
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The notion, the invention of a country, is fairly new in the history of mankind. We tend to forget that. We want… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind.… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.” “Really?” she asked. “Were you there?” His features blank, he looked… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion. — Paul Winchell Copy Share Image
“We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can… — Thomas Rowe Price, Jr Copy Share Image
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I think the inner person is the most important… I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.” — Katelyn S. Irons Copy Share Image
Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
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