Contrivances Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,…
— John Owen
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The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements.…
— Paul Carus
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The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally…
— Charles Darwin
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We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced…
— James Madison
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The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical…
— David McCullough
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To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a…
— Joseph Glanvill
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The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances.
— Pope Pius IV
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Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.
— Stanley Crouch
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
— Charles Darwin
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When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because…
— Jean Cocteau
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
— Marquis de Sade
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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like…
— Douglas Coupland
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
— Charles Darwin
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
— Charles DarwinCharles Darwin
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Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to…
— David Hume
Who Wrote These Contrivances Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Contrivances Quotes as follows: