Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
– Austin Phelps
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- For every wounded warrior, there is a myltitude of family, friends, and communities who are forever changed. – Diana Mankin Phelps
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- Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival. – Michael D OBrien
- Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God’s. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. – W Somerset Maugham
- The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious. – Raheel Farooq
- This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things. – Mark OConnell
- As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another. – Matthew Henry
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- There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
- He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
- When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it. – Robin Hobb
- Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less. – Tom McNeal
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- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. – David Langford
- Let’s create positive change on this planet; With either: the hyper sophisticated tools we have, or the mobile device we are – Natasha Tsakos
- Satan’s chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God. – RC Sproul
- A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives – Munia Khan
- A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them. – Israelmore Ayivor
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- Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. – Ray Dalio
- Prayer is a spiritual device that links humankind direct to the Father. – Euginia Herlihy
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- The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance. They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what? – Jonathan Heatt
- …if the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn’t mean you’re communicating with another person. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. – George Bernard Shaw
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- Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions. – Donald A Norman
- Where do I go from here? She thought to herself.Truth was, it didn’t matter.She had a new beginning. – Austin Cochran