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

  Eglantyne Jebb

  Mean, Imagination, World

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

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Blood, Law

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

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• 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.

  Ella Baker

  Meaningful, Self, Order

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• 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.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Mean, Mind

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

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

  Peter Medawar

  Art, Mean, Science

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• 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.

  Frederick Philip Grove

  Strong, Mean, Goal

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

  William Ellery Channing

  Mean, Political, Waste

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