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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. — Adolf Hitler
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. — Antonin Artaud
The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will… — Winston Churchill
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build… — Sol Stein
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to… — Pal Benko
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not… — C.S. Lewis
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide… — Mark Twain
What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down… — Saint Augustine
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of… — Unknown Author
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass — August Strindberg
Everything that can be invented has already been invented. — Charles Holland Duell
An artist is a person who has invented an artist. — Harold Rosenberg
Destiny is something people invented... because they can't stand the fact that everything that happens is the result of their choice. — John the Apostle
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material… — C.S. Lewis
I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. — Bette Midler
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO. — Lancelot Hogben
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. — Ralph Steadman
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. — Ed McMahon
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural'… — George Orwell
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. — Mark Twain
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the… — Douglas Hofstadter
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of… — Igor Sikorsky
I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take.… — Steve Wozniak

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