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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
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All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
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Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
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Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
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Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them.
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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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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 on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
Source: Mere Christianity (1952)
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