"A good story cannot be devised; it has…" — Raymond Chandler
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- The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest… — John C. Calhoun
- Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world. — John Henrik Clarke
- Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised… — John Dewey
- Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. — Westbrook Pegler
- I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among… — Thomas Jefferson
- I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a… — Adoniram Judson
- I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of… — Douglas MacArthur
- The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific… — John Dewey
- Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none… — Erwin Schrodinger
- There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a… — George Santayana
- I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of… — Abraham Lincoln
- Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow