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«Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought»
«My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
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as far as possible, concrete, device, embodies, embody, embodying, improvement, improvements, invention, New Idea, operate, rush
«I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?»
«No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile»
Author: William Rootes
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ancient, automobile, device, ego, fulfills, knighted, knights, lances, lancing, shields, The knight, The Knights
«Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company»
«Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women»
«Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.»
«DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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cramp, cramped, cramping, cramps, device, dictionary, inelastic, literary, literary device, literary work, malevolent
«It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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caves, device, dome, domes, sunny
«Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the screen is its best medium.»
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