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"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning." »Robert Collier
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"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." »Adam Smith
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions." »Edmund Burke
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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." »Samuel Johnson
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