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Tag Name "Invented" (794)

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Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
Al Capone
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Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you were breast-fed. So in the days before bottles were invented that gene would not have manifested itself as gay behavior, but now that bottles are common it can do so.
Richard Dawkins
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Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.
Wilson Mizner
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
Agatha Christie
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
George Santayana
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All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
Adolf Loos
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Adolf Hitler
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The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.
Adam Smith
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik
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Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
Yukio Mishima
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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.
Mark Steyn
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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
Kate Millett
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They've named the well after you. How did they know my name? They don't. They invented one.
Gerald Morris
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
John Fowles
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I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.
Jack Kirby
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Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.
Stephen Colbert
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I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.
Stuart Weitzman
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Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned on Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, all the founding fathers, the gods of thunder, who invented the foundation and the pulse of the greatest music in the world!
Ted Nugent
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The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
Fran Lebowitz
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Technology has to be invented or adopted.
Jared Diamond
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Oscar Wilde
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