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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement. -- George Bernard Shaw
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. -- Edmund Burke
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. -- Bryan Fuller
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture. -- E. O. Wilson
The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy. -- B. R. Ambedkar
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal. -- George Meyer
You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together. -- Robert Englund
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. -- Charles Babbage
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. -- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver! -- Thomas A. Edison
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave. -- William Shenstone
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. -- Gerrit Smith
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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. -- Robert Collier
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. -- Jill Lepore
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul. -- Epictetus
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. -- Jimmy Carter
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. -- Adam Smith
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still. -- Richard Cecil

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