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Devise Quotes
How intelligence and necessity devise a way forward.
This devise quotes page centers on human ingenuity, opening with the idea that intelligence, not brute strength, lets a person devise a way to entrap even a tiger. For more on human capability, Able quotes shares a similar spirit.
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- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its malfunctions. And if we can really figure out the retina, perhaps we will have a shot at figuring out the vastly more complicated brain.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possession of the pure synthetic specimens of the anthocyanidins and chief anthocyanins enabled my wife and me to devise quick tests for these colouring matters which can be used with the material from a few flower petals.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Madam C.J. Walker was the first person to devise and scale a business model that addressed the hair care and beauty needs of women of color while also challenging the myopic ideals of the beauty industry at that time.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.
- About
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
- Formal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
- Production
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservative journalists don't just have the inside track on Republican strategy - they help devise it.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There's no reason they couldn't likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade.
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- Nov 07, 2020