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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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But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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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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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did. ↗

— David Lee Roth

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In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

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Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon. ↗

— Allan Sherman

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If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. ↗

— Earl Warren

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