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«A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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baby, chemical, chemicals, coil, coiled, Coils, colossal, compare, devises, devising, finest, flow, ingenuity, interrelate, interrelated, invention, irreplaceable, marvelous, most recent, Planes, precision, recent, solutions, springs, super, supercargo, The Finest, timing
«Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.»
Author: Frederick Henry Hedge
| About:
Destiny,
Mankind
| Keywords:
ancestor, devises, devising, heir, inheriting, inherits
«If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal»
«God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
God,
Universe
| Keywords:
compared, complex, Dark Room, devising, dice, ineffable, my version, obscure, own version, perspective, pitch-dark, pitch, pitches, pitch in, pitch into, players, plays, poker, pokers, poker game, Poker Player, The Dark Room, version, versions
«Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.»
«Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.»
«Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
devise, devises, devising, direct, invention, inventions, lacking, simple, subtleties, subtlety, superfluous
«Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
deeply, democracy, devised, devises, devising, dying, form of government, honorable
«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.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
| Keywords:
destruction, devised, devises, devising, disposal, ingenuity, mightier, mightiest, weapon
«Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
at first, awe, cowards, devised, devises, devising, First to
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