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Letter "I" » ingenious
«Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.»
Author: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
(Biologist)
| About:
Curiosity,
Duty,
Remarkable,
Sharing
| Keywords:
informed, ingenious, on paper, put down, remarkable, thereof
«Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought»
«What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?»
«Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.»
Author: James Joyce
| Keywords:
devised, devises, devising, English, explains, ingenious, previous, the English, torture
«I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.»
Author: E. B. White
| Keywords:
accommodated, appreciatively, dictatorially, ingenious, pessimistic, skeptically, submission, viewed
«No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
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carried, foreign policy, Hearts of, ingenious, No Policy, policy
«That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy»
«Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
ingenious, unusually
«These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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emolument, filed, His Majesty, ingenious, issued, legal profession, Liege, machines, nook, nooks, offices, practitioner, practitioners, sequester, sequestered, signed
«Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
coherent, elementary, give vent, ingenious, sentences, substituted, vent, vents
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