Invented Quotes
1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors
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You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the…
— David James Duncan
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Man must be invented each day
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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We've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to…
— Newt Gingrich
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Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.
— Mary Quant
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You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, 'These are what the words mean.' Well, this is what they mean…
— Charles Manson
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I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that…
— Jacques Derrida
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard
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If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be…
— Bill Gates
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Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor; you…
— Vincent McNabb
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It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as…
— Walter Bagehot
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Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
— Charlie Munger
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Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.
— Caitlin Moran
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After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.
— Morton Feldman
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When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.
— Jan Hellriegel
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The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a…
— Henry Ford
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Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you…
— Julia Cameron
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The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Here’s a current example of the challenge we face: At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and…
— Jaron Lanier
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Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top…
— J D Salinger
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The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that…
— J. B. Jackson
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[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She…
— Ronald Reagan
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John Lennon imagined a world filled with peace and love. Martin Luther King dreamt of a world free from racial discrimination and oppression. The guy…
— Jon Lajoie
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Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly…
— Richard Ballantine
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