Invented Quotes
1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors
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NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him…
— Oriana Fallaci
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Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody…
— Philip Slater
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For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head…
— Richard Wagner
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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
— Mark Twain
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The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.
— Napoleon Hill
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
— Byron Katie
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No one has invented a condom for the pen yet
— Khushwant Singh
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Time does not exist - we invented it
— Albert Einstein
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...
— Oscar Wilde
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The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual…
— Philip Pullman
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I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
— Clarice Lispector
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I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.
— Paulo Coelho
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That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What…
— Rod Steiger
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Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists.
— Shane Smith
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The true success is the person who invented himself.
— Al Goldstein
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The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.
— Lewis Grizzard
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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
— Mark Twain
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
— John Maynard Keynes
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
— Little Richard
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The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
— Frank Capra
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes…
— Roland Barthes
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Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
— C.S. Lewis
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