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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
by John Adams (President, American , born in 1735) keywords: conceived, contrived, country, ever, his, imagination, insignificant, invention, man, most , office The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
by William Falconer (Poet, Scottish , born in 1732) keywords: anchors, before, contrived, great, ground, hold, into, loosened, made, now, reach, sink, soon, station, strain , their Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
by Learned Hand (Judge, American , born in 1872) keywords: action, answers, calls, constant, contrived, hastily, life, made, more, seldom, than, time , up Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Writer, American , born in 1809) keywords: authors, chips, contrived, critics, her, invented, left, make, manufactured, nature, out, patented, she , were The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
by Andrew Jackson (President, American , born in 1767) topics: Equality keywords: contrived, equality, man, never, operate, perfect, system, taxation, wisdom, would , yet There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
by Samuel Johnson (Author, English , born in 1709) keywords: been, capital, contrived, enjoy, good, happiness, house, inn, man, much, nothing, private, produced, sir, tavern, themselves, well, which , yet There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
by Samuel Johnson (Author, English , born in 1709) keywords: been, contrived, good, happiness, man, much, nothing, produced, tavern, which , yet The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
by John F. Kennedy (President, American , born in 1917) keywords: contrived, deliberate, dishonest, enemy, great, lie, myth, often, persistent, persuasive, truth, unrealistic , very But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.
by Jennifer Lopez (Musician , born in 1970) keywords: act, contrived, dance, fake, got, just, little, older, sing, something, time, very , would It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
by Freddie Mercury (Musician, British , born in 1946) keywords: been, career, contrived, destroys, hear, hype, soul, talent, whole , your Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
by Simon Raven (Novelist, English , born in 1927) keywords: behave, circumstances, contrived, gentlemen, manifestly, now, only, such, tolerated , unreal For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
by David Rittenhouse (Scientist, American , born in 1732) keywords: balls, beauty, bigness, considerable, contrived, fitter, greater, instrument, may, much, off, others, places, planets, pleasure, purposes, put, representing, smaller, some, taken , their You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
by E. P. Thompson (Historian, British , born in 1924) keywords: afterward, both, completely, contrived, could, developed, each, independently, justified, know, laboratories, only, other, out, political, scientist, situations, were , which
