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What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says… — Andrew Ryan
The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires a… — Robert Sheaffer
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a… — Christian Nestell Bovee
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. — Joseph Conrad
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. — R. D. Laing
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for… — Nathan Myhrvold
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. — Susan Sontag
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt. — Mark Twain
Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable. — Geoffrey Wolff
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void. — Diane Setterfield
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created… — John Steinbeck
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. — Mark Twain
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… — C.S. Lewis
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking… — Rebecca Solnit
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. — Jose Marti
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,… — Orson Scott Card
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone… — Dean Koontz
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along… — Eoin Colfer
A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have… — Rachilde
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. — Gary Snyder
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions… — Michel de Certeau
Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of… — Sri Chinmoy

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