“ Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. ”
- G. O. Ashley- Copy
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“ Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ”
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“ The only true charity is so contrived that the recipient need beg no more. ”
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“ The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. ”
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“ There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. ”
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“ Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. ”
- Wilhelm Reich- Copy
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“ IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. For his modesty's bump was so large a lump That its summit stood far above the wood Of his hair, like a mountain peak… ”
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