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- My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. — John Adams
- I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging… — Tony Campolo
- The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that… — James Prescott Joule
- As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must… — E. M. Forster
- O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human… — Arthur Rimbaud
- A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and… — Eve Arnold
- 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
- The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or… — Adam Smith
- The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition… — Alexander Hamilton
- Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting,… — Donald Fagen
- The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. — George C. Scott