Invent Quotes
693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors
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Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
— Augusto Boal
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Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.
— Anton Chekhov
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
— Philip Yancey
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly…
— William Hazlitt
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It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to…
— Rosario Castellanos
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What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent…
— Robert Palmer
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It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side…
— Hugh Hefner
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My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.
— Blaise Aguera y Arcas
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It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways…
— Nathan Milstein
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God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
— John Doerr
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What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and…
— Adrian Lyne
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It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live…
— Jan Struther
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As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,
— Trevor Baylis
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I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child I wanted to…
— Mary Zimmerman
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Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If…
— Charlie Cook
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One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe…
— Steven Johnson
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Against Nature's silence I use action In the vast indifference I invent a meaning I don't watch unmoved I intervene and say that this and…
— Peter Weiss
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I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist,…
— Jesse Ball
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The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
— Dennis Gabor
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