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All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the… — David Foster Wallace
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of… — Thomas Jefferson
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. — David McCullough
The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze. — Herman Wouk
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. — Robert A. Heinlein
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… — C.S. Lewis
The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into… — Margaret Atwood
Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for. — Mary Jo Putney
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a… — Toni Morrison
The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all… — C.S. Lewis
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man… — Tom Stoppard
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. — Oscar Wilde
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's… — P.J. O'Rourke
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that… — Chuck Palahniuk
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. — Michel Foucault
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can… — Paul Tillich
Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee… — Jorge Luis Borges
Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might… — Charles Baudelaire
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes… — Don DeLillo

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