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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
- When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to… — John Owen
- The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods… — Paul Carus
- The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through… — Charles Darwin
- We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states]… — James Madison
- The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances… — David McCullough
- To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to… — Joseph Glanvill
- The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are… — Pope Pius IV
- Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based… — Stanley Crouch
- To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of… — Charles Darwin
- When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a… — Jean Cocteau
- Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto. — Marquis de Sade