#ingenio

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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Casi el único valor de las grandes obras maestras del ingenio humano consiste en haber provocado un libro de crítica o de comentario. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

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To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. ↗

— Rex Stout

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Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof. ↗

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. ↗

— Karl Rove

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