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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Peace
Martin Amis

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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
Law and Lawyers
Azarias

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Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
Existence
Coleman Dowell

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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Invention and Inventor
Charles H. Duell

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Music
Lawrence Durrell

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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Invention and Inventor
Thomas A. Edison

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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
Diplomacy
David Lloyd George

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
Marriage
Heinrich Heine

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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Modesty
Joseph Joubert

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
Medicine
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Popularity
Bette Midler

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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
Confusion
Henry Miller

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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Fashion
Christopher Morley

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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
Television
Malcolm Muggeridge

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Parents and Parenting
Ogden Nash

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
Marriage
Francis Picabia

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Work
Pablo Picasso

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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Obstacles
Barbara Sher

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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Taste
Dame Edith Sitwell

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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Kisses and Kissing
Jonathan Swift

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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Language
Lily Tomlin

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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Evolution
Mark Twain

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
Consciousness
Source Unknown

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Life and Living
Simone Weil

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Wickedness
Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun