"It is a wretched thing that the young……" — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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• There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking… — Robert Creeley
• It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we… — Herman Boerhaave
• Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their… — Samuel Johnson
• Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute… — Mark Twain
• To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several… — James Madison
• Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving. — James Russell Lowell
• The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he… — Richard M. Weaver
• If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse. — Robert Mugabe
• Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often… — Iain Banks
• Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out… — John Dewey
• I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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