#ingenious

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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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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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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In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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