"Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to……" — Peter Davison
"Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers."
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- On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of… — Cecil Beaton
- The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my… — Bill Bryson
- Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. — Fred Allen
- "Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is… — Rajneesh
- Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the… — Leland Stanford
- One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. — Charles E. Allen
- Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel… — Larry Page
- Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. — Arthur Helps
- An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data,… — Aaron Koblin
- We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries