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The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.
Marianne Williamson
Alone
Conflict
Mind
Thinking
Our
Lies
Miracle
Simply
Mortal
True
Beyond
Devise
Because
Answer
Israel
Israeli-Palestinian
Quite
Cannot
Level
Palestinians
Consciousness
Need
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi
Practice
Every
Compromise
Imperfect
Perfection
Like
Devise
Principle
Practise
Limits
Cannot
Us
Moment
Beings
Expression
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
Beautiful
Nature
Simple
Will
Invention
Nothing
Superfluous
Direct
More
Inventions
Never
Devise
Because
Does
Than
Lacking
Human
Subtlety
Her
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
Bayard Rustin
Journey
Travel
Training
Jim
Jim Crow
Projects
Reconciliation
Similar
Only
Crow
Area
Major
Armed
Armed Services
Devise
Also
Employment
Discrimination
Training Ground
Against
Organized
Ground
Peaceful
Techniques
Services
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler
People
Try
Old
Circle
Nation
Schemes
Devise
Irish
Square
Times
Times People
Used
Now
Satisfying
At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
Elizabeth Kenny
Men
First
Year
Believe
Nurse
Worse
States
Could
Had
Simply
Failed
Devise
Australia
Refused
Where
After
Which
Bush
Succeeded
England
Who
United
United States
Treatment
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
Wole Soyinka
You
Amazing
Value
Kinds
Mental
Devise
Period
Exercises
Survive
Human
Lengthy
To Survive
Deprived
Then
Companionship
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
Peter Singer
Library
Man
Digital
Moon
Able
Something
Put
Devise
Genome
Close
Human
Public
Should
Public Library
Sequence
Universal
Madam C.J. Walker was the first person to devise and scale a business model that addressed the hair care and beauty needs of women of color while also challenging the myopic ideals of the beauty industry at that time.
Richelieu Dennis
Time
Needs
Business
Women
Care
Hair
First
Beauty
Scale
Madam
Myopic
Color
Ideals
Devise
Also
Industry
First-Person
Walker
Model
Person
While
Business Model
Challenging
I think about issues. I use my economic training to devise solutions.
Gita Gopinath
Training
Think
Solutions
About
Economic
Devise
Issues
Use
Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another seventy-five years or so.
Rick Perlstein
Generation
Sometimes
Responsibility
Every
Think
New
Like
Devise
Another
Democrats
New Generation
Years
Program
There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
Zhang Zhidong
Alone
Strength
Knowledge
Man
Intelligence
Country
Own
Has-Been
Never
He
Combat
Powerful
Devise
Him
Tiger
Became
Without
Been
His
Cannot
Which
Means
Successfully
My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
Adelbert von Chamisso
Morning
Man
Care
First
Some
Following
Devise
Discovering
Cloak
Grey
Means
I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.
Steve Swallow
Me
Style
Own
Liberating
Impacted
Strongly
My Own
Voice
Tactics
Look
Devise
Instrument
Because
Were
Any
Really
Found
Necessity
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.
Hal Rogers
Mining
Seems
New
Devise
Burning
EPA
Worked
Usage
Coal
Hard
Regulations
Designed
Eliminate