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- There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.… — Sun Tzu
- If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount… — Thomas Carlyle
- Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to… — Thomas Carlyle
- Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel
- Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which… — B.F. Skinner
- He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to… — Samuel Johnson
- It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as… — Thomas Paine
- I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be… — Gautama Buddha
- Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. — Socrates
- By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are… — Gerolamo Cardano
- "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke
- To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background… — Vincent Van Gogh