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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.


John Adams

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ANDREW JACKSON I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.
AXL ROSE It wasn't contrived or a stunt -- that's the way I am.
BRADFORD COHEN These are contrived charges,
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know th...
JOHN SMITH There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The great enemy of thruth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
WILHELM REICH Now this state [that] gave us John Adams and John Kennedy has now given us John Kerry , a good man, ...
BILL CLINTON Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
MARTIN OPPENHEIMER Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberate...
G. O. ASHLEY Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberatel...
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G. O. ASHLEY It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole ...
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USHER The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
ELIZABETH BISHOP As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
GERMAN PROVERB It was a contrived crisis. There never was a crisis.
J. LOWELL STOLTZFUS When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
JOHN ADAMS Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
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DAVID MCCULLOUGH How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their severa...
ISAAC NEWTON To get runs was nice but no consolation for the fact that, again, we contrived to lose a match that ...
FRASER WATTS Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
PIERRE CHARRON I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an im...
TERRY PRATCHETT Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived...
LEARNED HAND I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and tha...
SHERMAN EDWARDS Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a...
BARBARA T. CERNY I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
GAVIN BRYARS I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the h...
HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER STOWE John, let me make one thing clear,” Jim said, cutting me off in his most stern, evangelical voice....
DAVID WONG Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
ISAAC ASIMOV I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go h...
TONY CAMPOLO The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him an...
SAM SHEPARD I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and force...
STEVEN WRIGHT The art of stock trading is the best invention ever invented by man for money making.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important produ...
NIKOLA TESLA I liked the title, and I wanted to explore the concept of this contrived holiday and what happens wh...
NIA VARDALOS We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pecksni...
G.K. CHESTERTON You're seeing a knee-jerk reaction to the tremendous gain in energy prices. It's also a reaction to ...
DONALD SELKIN John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he...
MICHELE BACHMANN What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has see...
SITTING BULL A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that no...
DEAN KAMEN We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth t...
VAL EDWARD SIMONE The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man's look. With good tailoring and well chose...
ROGER STONE You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the labor...
E. P. THOMPSON It's hard for me to listen to President Bush invoking my father's memory to attack John Kerry. Senat...
CAROLINE SCHLOSSBERG It's hard for me to listen to President Bush invoking my father's memory to attack John Kerry. Senat...
CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG His invention is ubiquitous and has had as much if not more impact than the invention of the piano. ...
DAVID BORDEN I live three blocks away from the beach, so every day I walk down to the beach to run or go swimming...
DYLAN PENN For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerab...
DAVID RITTENHOUSE Steve has the most unbelievable range for a man that I've ever heard.
EYDIE GORME Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is m...
MANNY FARBER The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, / The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cann...
MARQUIS DE SADE A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when h...
ELIZABETH MARIE POPE We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other wa...
CHRIS WOODING The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imaginatio...
HENRY GEORGE No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification...
JOHN WESLEY The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to ho...
WILLIAM FALCONER The trouble with this country,” the late John Berryman once told fellow poet James Dickey, “is t...
GEORGE SHEEHAN That is the man you face. He has more honour and integrity than any man I have ever met. He is dedic...
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DUSTIN KENSRUE Actually, no. I won't ever go digital. I work with thirty-five or large format. I like the hand-jobs...
PANSY SCHNEIDER-HORST Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my f...
MAGGIE CAREY A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
EDGAR WATSON HOWE A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
E. W. HOWE I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both...
BEN HECHT When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving...
JESSE EISENBERG Don't ever underestimate my kindness for weakness. I have a heart of gold, but the strength of titan...
STEPHANIE ADAMS The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the ...
JOHN STEINBECK People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions kn...
MATTHEW GOLDMAN No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER I love diamond jewellery on men, and pocket scarves, cravats, cufflinks. The trick is to throw it to...
DAVID FURNISH Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
FLOYD SKLOOT For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my...
SHAHZIA SIKANDER It is very extraordinary, if the head of the money department of a country, being unprincipled enoug...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
NORTHROP FRYE The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state o...
JAMES MADISON Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -...
JOHN ADAMS That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his facul...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it mus...
MAX ERNST Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.
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I must j...
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican gove...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS "Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathe...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS