"The poverty of our imagination is no measure……" — George Eliot

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• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the… — Samuel Butler
• Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. Keep… — Sun Tzu
• [When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover… — Albert Einstein
• It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question;… — Claude Bernard
• I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the… — J. G. Ballard
• It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they… — James Madison
• Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise. — Janet Morris
• It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One… — Dennis Flanagan
• Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe… — Isaac Asimov
• My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them.… — Gough Whitlam
• I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough… — Henry Ford
• A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected… — George Washington

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