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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Peace, War, Him

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon

Heart, Hand, Head

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
Daniel Clowes

Moment, Completion, Yeah

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
James Weldon Johnson

Sadness, Long, Leaving

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.
Robert Fortune

Two, High, System

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.
Junipero Serra

Good, Seen, Fishing

I don't think you can contrive any sound.
George Shearing

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
Gene Clark

Writing, Song, Actual

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