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The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong. ↗

— Robert Maxwell

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Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. ↗

— Lisa See

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. ↗

— Simone Weil

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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. ↗

— Balthus

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I have invented the Thermometer style. ↗

— Josef Albers

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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. ↗

— Peter Davison

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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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