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- I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! — Ingrid Bergman
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. — Edith Sitwell
- No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be… — Roger Brooke Taney
- Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. — Adolf Hitler
- The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment… — Igor Sikorsky
- The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that… — Josiah Stamp
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- The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about… — Irving Kaufman
- The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel
- Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! — John Ciardi
- Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented. — Henry F. Ashurst
- The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is… — George F. Kennan