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1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends. — Bill Watterson
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who… — Temple Grandin
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is… — Douglas Adams
To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An… — James A. Baldwin
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. — Orson Scott Card
He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you. — Christopher Moore
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books. — Thomas Carlyle
No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide. — Wallace Stegner
We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to… — Paulo Coelho
When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain… — Audrey Niffenegger
It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't… — Frank McCourt
And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to… — Paulo Coelho
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… — Bill Bryson
We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be… — Shane Claiborne
In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive.… — Temple Grandin
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. — Oscar Wilde
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — U.G. Krishnamurti
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. — Leo Tolstoy
This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself… — Tom Robbins
He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb!… — John Bellairs
A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up.… — Nick Hornby
In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever… — Jonathan Safran Foer
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. — George Bernard Shaw

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