#contrive

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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It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#career #contrived #destroys #hear #hype

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal. ↗

— Fred Durst

#contrived #credibility #filter #for the people #how

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

#before #contrived #great #great strain #ground

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#chaos #contrived #foothold #living #phenomena

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#becomes #contrived #joke #just #much

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#execute #hand #head #heart #resolve

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#constant #contrived #directly #opposite #pain

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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