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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
— Ernest Dimnet
Beauty was devised by someone very insecure to rob others of the happiness he or she couldn't feel. It was a dick move, to be honest.
— Durjoy Datta
People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way
— Frederick Lenz
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
— James A. Garfield
Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.
— Frederick Lenz
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
— Westbrook Pegler
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
— John Henrik Clarke
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
— Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state devised!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.
— Billy Graham
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
— William Shakespeare
The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.
— Mark Millar
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.
— Rachel Maddow
There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures
— Norman L Browse
The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
— Douglas McGregor
Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl
— Terry Goodkind
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
— Francis Bacon
It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.
— Alexander Hamilton
The Fetch was intelligent, diabolically so, and intelligent people devised intelligent cruelties. That was where the Red Queen had always excelled.
— Erika Johansen
Some mechanism ought to be devised for shaking elderly people in a healthful way, and in many directions.
— Francis Galton
I saw now that love could not be stopped, forgotten, or transferred, no matter what schemes the mind and body devised.
— Wendy Higgins
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
— Jasper Fforde
No form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
— Mark Twain
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.
— Pope Paul VI
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
— M. King Hubbert
The slaveholders of America had devised with almost scientific precision their systems for keeping the Negro defenseless, emotionally and physically.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.
— Don Herold
In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.
— Daniel Crevier
No story can be devised by the wit of man which cannot be interpreted allegorically by the wit of some other man.
— C.S. Lewis
There let them bide until we have devised Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them.
— William Shakespeare
Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
— Virginia Woolf
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
— Osamu Dazai
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
— Richard Whately
One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.
— Lisa Kleypas
He was either stout or portly, wealthy enough that a vocabulary had been devised to conceal his girth.
— Renee Patrick
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
— Marquis De Sade
There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted
— Thomas Cranmer
Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.
— Ken Follett
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
— Oliver Herford
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
— Jonathan Kozol
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
— Ronald Reagan
Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.
— Ruth Hurmence Green
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
— William Feather
money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.
— Yuval Noah Harari
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
— Raymond Chandler
What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.
— William Wilberforce
The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection.
— Timothy Snyder
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
— W.G. Sebald
Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.
— Publilius Syrus
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
— George Washington
In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised
— George S. Patton
Don't make any plans, because there is only one plan which really works and that is not even devised by you
— Alok Jagawat
Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.
— Elbert Hubbard
Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Perfectionism prevents action. Waiting until you have devised the perfect solution to something is merely a form of procrastination.
— Staffan Noteberg
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.
— Neal Shusterman