#ingenuity

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong. ↗

— Arlen Specter

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I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#books #crank #different #every #formula

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#general #human #ingenuity #me #seems

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe. ↗

— George Pataki

#character #come #corner #creativity #decade

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ↗

— George S. Patton

#how #ingenuity #never #people #surprise

A creative America has walls for structure but no ceilings at all. The doors and windows always stay open. No member who wants in is left out. Outsider ideas are invited and celebrated....Each creator grows the revolution. Whatever kind of creator you may be, you are part of the revolution’s orchestra, its folk music, chorus, melody, and anthem. ↗

— Ashfaq Ishaq

#music

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#american #bill #bold #clean #clean energy

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. ↗

— Alan Turing

#combination #exercise #facilities #ingenuity #intuition

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #budgets #genuinely

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#creativity #ingenuity #peace #political-propaganda #war