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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. ↗

— Henry Miller

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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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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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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

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Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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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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