Quotes with inventing

  • Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.

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  • Lewis Mumford By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bo Bennett If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • George Orwell Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Elton The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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