Quotes 41 till 60 of 82.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
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Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
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Men invented money. Women invented mutual aid.
Wolkenatlas (2008) 143 -
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.
In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996) -
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
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Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
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