“ If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste. ”
- W. B. Yeats- Copy
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“ Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
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“ Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. ”
- Herbert Simon- Copy
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“ Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others. ”
- Eric Berne- Copy
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“ This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. ”
- Aristophanes- Copy
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“ War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song. ”
- Gene Clark- Copy
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“ Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ 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! ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. ”
- George Borrow- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something — or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself… ”
- Roger Zelazny- Copy
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