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The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service. — Mike Harding
The quicker we all realize that we've been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past… — Joe Rogan
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess — George Koltanowski
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong;… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself… — William Faulkner
I sat in a garage and invented the future. — Steve Jobs
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. — Gore Vidal
We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what… — John Lennon
My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King… — Catherine of Aragon
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but… — Thomas Frank
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know… — Diane von Furstenberg
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance,… — Bill Gates
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. — Newt Gingrich
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. — Temple Grandin
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person. — Mason Cooley
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me. — Billy Crystal
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it… — Jonathan Davis
You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the… — Alan Dershowitz
Technology has to be invented or adopted. — Jared Diamond
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. — Lawrence Durrell
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from… — Freeman Dyson
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better… — Umberto Eco
Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits.… — Umberto Eco

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