Top Contrived Quotes
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
E. P. Thompson
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Pierre Charron
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson 
93% of people like this quote
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
E. P. Thompson
69% of people like this quote
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson
56% of people like this quote
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Pierre Charron
56% of people like this quote
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
56% of people like this quote
The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
William Falconer
55% of people like this quote
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand
54% of people like this quote
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich
53% of people like this quote