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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… — Mark Twain
- In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of… — Jacque Fresco
- Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of… — Gore Vidal
- We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag. — Mark Twain
- It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. — John Steinbeck
- He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:… — Peter S. Beagle
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is… — John Steinbeck