Devised Quotes
149 quotes by 139 authors
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All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or…
— Boies Penrose
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In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is…
— Fritjof Capra
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Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know.…
— Edward Teller
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Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is…
— Richard L. Evans
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Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.
— Ruth Hurmence Green
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No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual…
— Philip Pullman
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As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy,…
— Huston Smith
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God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised
— George S. Patton
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Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred…
— Upton Sinclair
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Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons…
— George W. Bush
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It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology is now a…
— Peter Medawar
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That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.…
— C.S. Lewis
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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
— Virginia Woolf
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Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first, he knew what…
— Michael Atiyah
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Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values,…
— Tom Flynn
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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
— Mark Twain
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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought…
— Mark Twain
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