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1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness. — Paulo Coelho
I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that… — Agatha Christie
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,… — John Donne
Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible… — Paul Feyerabend
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge… — Nigel Farage
There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that… — Junichiro Tanizaki
Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths. — Unknown Author
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced… — Thomas A. Edison
Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had… — George Grosz
My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and… — Thomas A. Edison
Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some… — Sparky Anderson
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation… — Edgar Schein
The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences… — Chalmers Johnson
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas;… — Edward Gibbon
People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it. — Barry Switzer
There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how… — Jeff Bezos
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. — Irving Kaufman
It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine. — John G. Stumpf
Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on — Jamy Ian Swiss
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel
God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving… — Lewis B. Smedes
Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. — Philip K. Dick
Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands...… — Milton Friedman
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent… — Paul Virilio

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