#invented

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#anything #christianity #ever #far #heard

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#books #god #had #harvard #invented

Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself. ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#himself #peter #peter sellers #reinvented #sellers

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#cigarettes #government #invented #legalize #somebody

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice. ↗

— Russell Banks

#could #grows #having #hear #her

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. ↗

— Boris Johnson

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