"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to……" — Edmund Burke

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• At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage
• Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these… — Jimmy Carter
• Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind,… — Robert Collier
• I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into… — Thomas Jefferson
• My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread… — Alphonsus Liguori
• Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
• The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and… — Gerrit Smith
• The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing… — Stephen Leacock
• Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The… — Walter Lippmann

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