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Inventive Quotes (page 18)

Under these conditions it is no wonder, that the movement of atheists, which declares religion to be just a deliberate illusion, invented by power-seeking priests, and which has for the pious belief in a higher Power nothing but words of mockery, eagerly makes use of progressive scientific knowledge and in a presumed unity with it, expands in an ever faster pace its disintegrating action on all nations of the earth and on all social levels. I do not need to explain in any more detail that... Max Planck
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. Anton Chekhov
...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and with such abominable results. They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books. Kurt Vonnegut
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life! Charles Darwin
I didn't like the endless gossiping or the constant complaints that they were victims of external factors. Somalis never said "Sorry" or "I made a mistake" or "I don't know": they invented excuses. All these group strategies to avoid confronting reality depressed me. Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them..."
I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day. J. R. R. Tolkien
Common sense isn't a real thing. And its ugly cousin, fairness, is a concept invented so dumb people could participate in arguments. Scott Adams
Don DeLillo quote: "Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept..."
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. Don DeLillo
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Imagination could never invent the number of different..."
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Germaine Greer quote: "Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves."
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. Germaine Greer
...there was always a sort of tacit understanding among women, born of the solidarity of the sex, that they should discover or invent lovers for each other... Henry James
Thomas Hardy quote: "If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals..."
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that..."
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent Elizabeth Wurtzel
Shel Silverstein quote: "And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet."
And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. Shel Silverstein

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