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«A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
«Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Conflict
| Keywords:
contrives, contriving, gadfly, invention, noting, observation, passivity, sets, sheeplike, shocks, stirs
«The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
Equality,
Taxation,
Wisdom
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contrived, contrives, contriving, equality, operate, operating system, taxation
«In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
contrive, contrives, contriving, deed, execute, mischief, resolve
«The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Truth
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contrived, contrives, contriving, deliberate, deliberates, Deliberating, dishonest, myth, persistent, persuasive, The Myth, unrealistic
«How can you contrive to write so even?»
«There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contrived, contrives, contriving, produced, tavern, Taverns
«If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
account, contrive, contrives, contriving, craft, crafted, crafts, from the heart, The Craft, to that
«Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Health
| Keywords:
contrive, contrives, contriving, ill health, manage
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