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ingenious
«Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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corporation, device, ingenious, obtaining, profit, The Corporation
«Frank Lloyd Wright's inverted oatmeal dish and silo with their awkward cantilevering, their jaundiced skin and the ingenious spiral ramp leading down past the abstractions which mirror the tortured maladjustments of our time.»
«And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
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a people, capture, chopsticks, distressing, extending, food for thought, frankly, gunpowder, ingenious, invent, knits, knitted, knitting, needles, objects, odd, odd number, pair, worked
«It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
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analytic, fanciful, imaginative, ingenious, in fact
«He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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ingenious, inspirer, physician
«ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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alderman, covers, ingenious, marauding, pretence, thieving
«An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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arrangement, ingenious, levers, wheels
«DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver.As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it. --Barlow S. Vode»
«It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
compassionate, counsels, eliminate, fatten, fattened, fattening, fattens, huckster, hucksters, induce, inducing, ingenious, nourished, ranks, self confidence, surrender, yielded