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- Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
- The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra.…
- 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…
- I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the…
- We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
- The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! — Ingrid Bergman
- I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' — Jeff Bezos
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
- I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat,… — Elayne Boosler
- I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. — David Bowie
- Truth exists; only lies are invented. — Georges Braque
- I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it. — Sarah Brightman
- The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. — Alton Brown
- The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. — Sid Caesar