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In order to rally people, governments need enemies ... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. — Nhat Hanh

When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear. — Alan Dean Foster

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes. — John Green

To invent is to discern, to choose. — Henri Poincare

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent. — Nancy Duarte

If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful. — William Zinsser

I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself. — Michael Caine

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie? — Shannen Doherty

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'. — Howard Barker

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent. — Paul Simon

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. — Robert Mankoff

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her. — Ian Dury

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo

I like to experiment a lot and invent things. — Kathy Ireland

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war. — Walter Dean Myers

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? — Eddie Izzard

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life. — Stephen Hawking

I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things. — Alice Oswald

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today? — Karl Lagerfeld

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him. — Manoj Vaz

my life's motto: If you're not willing to invent cool-sounding bullshit about yourself, don't expect others to. — Tim Dorsey

She would say, Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun ... then my work here is done. — Lauren Willig

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen. — Jerry Garcia

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin

I want to invent a drug to help people get off drugs. — Jarod Kintz

Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems. — Naomi Shihab Nye

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. — Katharine Whitehorn

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself. — Charles Bukowski

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character. — Todd Rundgren

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. — Robin Marantz Henig

If you are always looking for the negative in yourself, then you will find ways to invent it. — Kenneth Horowitz

Lies have always been easier to invent than reality. — Marty Rubin

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself. — Warren G. Bennis

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them. — Marty Rubin

Honestly, we'll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition. — Tim Cook

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. — Jeanette Winterson

My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe. — Jim Harrison

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle. — Jim Crace

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it. — Robert Anton Wilson

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others. — Cher

What one man can invent, another can discover. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent. — Kevin Kelly

If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. — Elbert Hubbard

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
[2002] p.46 — Gary Hamel

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world. — Umberto Eco

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it? — Ryan Lilly

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names. — Dana Spiotta

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play — Juan Carlos Onetti

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them. — Pattie Maes

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have. — Sarah Addison Allen

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."
"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. — Leo Tolstoy

Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you. — Adam Young

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? — Julio Cortazar

138. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse - and forget it immediately. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Somebody needs to invent a shower for the mind, not just the body. — Anna C. Salter

If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far. — Haruki Murakami

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. — Edward De Bono

I didn't invent the word "selfie," but I took tons of Polaroids of myself. — Brigid Berlin

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. — John F. Kennedy

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.' — Charles Lyell

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it. — Alan Kay

I believe it is the sole business of government to invent elaborate impediments to swift action, — Lyndsay Faye

I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter. — Anthony Pettis

Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future! — Philippe Kahn

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent. — Jeff Bezos

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. — Orson Scott Card

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging. — Phillip C. Schlechty

And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him. — Richard Wright

The propensity of man, is to invent history, that he may promote his own destiny...

Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba — Joaquin R. Larriba

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them. — Bill Gates

My training and my inclination is to invent. — Darin Strauss

I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it? — Lisa Samson

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious. — Siri Hustvedt

Dreamers push boundaries, they invent and they keep awake at all times. — Euginia Herlihy

Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil. — Mark T. Barnes

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. — Seth Godin

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that. — Chuck Palahniuk

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it. — Ian Chappell

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. — Thomas A. Edison

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion. — Honore De Balzac

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. — G.K. Chesterton

When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones. — Marty Rubin

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them. — Jack Vance

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea. — Paul Lansky

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent. — David Rockwell

And we must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc. — Giacomo Balla

It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation. — John Wyndham

When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago. — Dana Gould

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday. — Stephen Richards

Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent. — Pierre Levy

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. — Charles J. Shields

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake

If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport. — Olga Korbut

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living. — Shelagh Delaney

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. — Alexander Pope

There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones. — Christina Engela