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1 " In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving " as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable. "
2 " Helen devises plans to become a monster herself. "
― , Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
3 " An architect draws the plans for a new building—but it still has to be built. A composer writes a new piece of music—but it still has to be played. A chef devises a new recipe—but the ingredients still have to be cooked. In the same way, God has given us a blueprint for living—but we must know what it is and then put it into action. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
4 " The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use. "
― William Jennings Bryan
5 " Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past. "
6 " Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. "
