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1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver! — Thomas A. Edison
But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention… — Karl Marx
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson
Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto… — Mary Roach
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College. — Al Gore
We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise — Jack Kemp
Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented. — Jon Stewart
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited… — Leon M. Lederman
Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag. — Mark Twain
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found… — Mark Twain
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited. — Rupert Holmes
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak. — Miguel de Cervantes
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law… — Learned Hand
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief… — Cynthia Ozick
If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. — Erma Bombeck
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid… — John Updike
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. — Jeanette Winterson
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. — Robert Breault
When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark. — Steven Moffat
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed… — Andrew Young
It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western… — Aviva Chomsky
All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could… — H.G. Wells
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn… — Albert Einstein
... every little boy thinks he invented sin. — John Steinbeck
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design… — Edward Hoagland

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