"He said that few people had intellectual resources……" — Samuel Johnson

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• There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune… — Sun Tzu
• If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of… — Thomas Carlyle
• Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it,… — Thomas Carlyle
• Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would… — Robert Kanigel
• Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions… — B.F. Skinner
• It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural… — Thomas Paine
• I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who… — Gautama Buddha
• Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. — Socrates
• By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our… — Gerolamo Cardano
• "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort… — Edmund Burke
• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a… — Vincent Van Gogh
• This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who… — Aristophanes

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