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«People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
conspiracy, contrivance, contrivances, diversion, diversions, merriment, prices
«Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
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Government,
Wisdom
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contrivance, contrivances, provide for
«Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.»
Author: Robert Collier
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article, Articles of, beginnings, contrivance, contrivances, designed, evolved, evolves, evolving, instrument, the article, tool, utensil, utensils
«There are some who deny even today the possibility of air travel; they curse the contrivance. They cavil at it. Similarly, there are many who cavil at the Avatar who has come to save them.»
Author: Atharva Veda
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contrivances
«No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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contrivance, contrivances, drowned, jail, sailor
«No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned»
«Abandoning all devices and contrivances, I have sought His Sanctuary. Nanak has fallen at the Feet of the Guru. »
«All strict rituals are just clever contrivances. My God knows everything. He has made His Glory manifest, and all people celebrate Him.»
«THE airplane has to land at a certain place in order to take in those who have reserved the right to fly by the tickets that they have purchased. So too the Lord has to come down so that those who have won the right to be liberated may be saved. Incidentally, others too will know of the Lord, of His Grace and ways of winning it and of the joy of liberation. There are some who deny even today the possibility of air-travel; they curse the contrivance. They cavil at it. Similarly there are many who cavil at the Avatar that has come to save them.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
airplane, air travel, avatar, cavil, contrivance, contrivances, fly by, incidentally, reserved, take in, tickets
«It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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contrivance, contrivances, desperate, resolution, surmount, surmounted, surmounting
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