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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
by Andreas Capellanus (Writer , French) keywords: any, avarice, consent, could, diamond, earth, easily, even, get, giving, gold, hardly, her, human, ingenuity, more, satisfy, savings, scratch, sea, than, turned, were, whole, woman , your Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
by Pete Domenici (Politician, American , born in 1932) keywords: american, begging, drop, energy, ingenuity, instead, leadership, oil, opec, our, own, prices, problems, solve , use Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
by Mohandas Gandhi (Leader, Indian , born in 1970) keywords: destruction, devised, disposal, force, greatest, ingenuity, man, mankind, mightier, mightiest, non-violence, than , weapon I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
by Sue Grafton (Novelist, American , born in 1940) keywords: book, books, crank, different, every, formula, hell, ingenuity, lot, out, part, sausages, takes, these, want, which , write And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.
by John Hersey (Writer, American , born in 1914) keywords: affected, against, became, had, his, ingenuity, man, men, menstruation, nature, own, processes, protecting, reproductive, sterile, stopped, time, were , women With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.
by Jay Inslee (Politician, American , born in 1951) keywords: action, american, bill, bold, clean, danish, energy, family, germans, ingenuity, into, japanese, jobs, lead, lost, manufacturing, millions, need, new, order, playing, rather, since, takes, tap, technology, than, wage , world Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
by Wyndham Lewis (Author, English , born in 1882) keywords: always, any, collapse, difficulty, even, great, ingenuity, into, likely, made, male, man, men, more, naturally, only, position, primitive, propped, society, some, than, up, were , woman We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.
by Sarah Palin (Politician, American , born in 1964) keywords: american, brought, energy, ingenuity, need, produced, resources, sources , workers Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.
by George E. Pataki (Politician, American , born in 1945) keywords: change, character, come, corner, creativity, decade, every, extraordinary, globe, ingenuity, most, our, state, unleashed , world Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
by George S. Patton (Soldier, American , born in 1885) topics: Imagination keywords: how, ingenuity, never, surprise, tell, their, them, things , will Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
by George Dennison Prentice (Editor , American) keywords: avoid, debt, get, half, ingenuity, into, other, paying, some, their , use Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
by Jean Rostand (Scientist , French) keywords: achievements, among, beautiful, being, cannot, certain, could, errors, falsity, human, idea, ingenuity, keep, mind, ranking, regret, such , their Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.
by John Sayles (Director, American , born in 1950) keywords: any, basically, bring, cleverness, could, did, get, give, going, good, had, ingenuity, just, liked, making, money, more, movie, objection, out, really, roger, script , trailer Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
by Thomas Sowell (Economist, American , born in 1930) keywords: accounting, balanced, budget, budgets, genuinely, ingenuity, likely, more, produce, requirements, seem , than If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
by Arlen Specter (Politician, American , born in 1930) keywords: assertiveness, cannot, country, defense, going, independence, ingenuity, intelligence, kind, made, our, play, strong, time , which Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
by Alan Turing (Mathematician, English , born in 1912) keywords: call, combination, exercise, facilities, ingenuity, intuition, mathematical, may, rather, reasoning, regarded, two , which Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
by Thomas Willis (Scientist, English , born in 1621) keywords: age, born, broken, drunkards, effeminate, great, ingenuity, liberal, men, old, parents, ripe, soft, such, those, too, want, wit, yet , young
