Invented Them Quotes
9 quotes by 7 authors
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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
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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
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Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then…
— Jacque Fresco
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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable…
— Gore Vidal
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
— Mark Twain
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It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
— John Steinbeck
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He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them…
— Peter S. Beagle
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Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
— John Steinbeck
Who Wrote These Invented Them Quotes
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