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In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented. — Bobby Charlton
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into… — Mark Steyn
Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones… — Stuart Weitzman
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to… — John Jay Hooker
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea. — R C Sproul
Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women. — Julie Foudy
The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM. — Paul Volcker
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has… — Margaret Thatcher
God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil. — Wolfgang Pauli
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'… — Jack Kerouac
We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is… — Tom Robbins
For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the… — Unknown Author
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up… — M. John Harrison
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. . .… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. — Robert Hass
Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if… — Colleen McCullough
Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented, — Julian Assange
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. — Kate Millett
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. — Stephen R. Lawhead
I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability… — David Geffen
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those… — Charles Mingus
I like naked women. I'm a bloke. I'm supposed to like them. We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled… — Steven Moffat
Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that without consciousness, he… — Antonio Damasio
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw. — Josh Billings
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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