Devising Means Quotes

• We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

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  Eglantyne Jebb

  Mean   Imagination   World  

  3374

• To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

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  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature   Mean   Mind  

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

  3838

• In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.

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  Ella Baker

  Meaningful   Self   Order  

  1657

• If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.

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  Frederick Philip Grove

  Strong   Mean   Goal  

  921

• The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

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  Peter Medawar

  Art   Mean   Science  

  1678

• The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

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  William Shakespeare

  Anger   Blood   Law  

  1596-7 Portia.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.2, l.17-18.

  4787

• We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

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  William Ellery Channing

  Mean   Political   Waste  

  4174