All 21 Uses of
devise
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He had devised a new type of truss.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- To watch you as you are, as you face the world with your clean, proud strength-then to see you, in my bed, submitting to any infamous whim I may devise, to any act which I'll perform for the sole purpose of watching your dishonor and to which you'll submit for the sake of an unspeakable sensation ….†
Chpt 1.7
- I have neither the time nor the stomach to devise some form of blackmail in order to tie you up and own my mines through you.†
Chpt 1.8
- The cleanest, swiftest, cheapest means of motion ever devised.†
Chpt 1.9
- I would like to spare you the strain of trying to devise some argument, trick or plea that would make me give you the information you are seeking.†
Chpt 1.10
- -was it a conscious policy, devised with full awareness of its meaning?†
Chpt 2.4
- It was to avoid moments such as this that all the complex twistings of their minds had been devised, They wished the directive to go into effect.†
Chpt 2.6
- I broke their code, but I fell into the trap they intended, the trap of a code devised to be broken.†
Chpt 2.6
- It gave her pleasure to devise complex systems of levers and pulleys out of old scraps of iron and rope, then to move weights of rock that were much beyond her physical power.†
Chpt 2.8
- I would not surrender them to the educational systems devised to stunt a child's brain, to convince him that reason is impotent, that existence is an irrational chaos with which he's unable to deal, and thus reduce him to a state of chronic terror.†
Chpt 3.2
- Now you see how important it is that you go on the air and tell people that it isn't true that Directive 10-289 is destroying industry, that it's a sound piece of legislation devised for everybody's good, and that if they'll just be patient a little longer, things will improve and prosperity will return.†
Chpt 3.3
- "What I mean is, some constructive policy has to be devised," he droned on hastily.†
Chpt 3.5
- I mean, we've got to be realistic and devise some practical means to protect our supplies under existing conditions, not under unprovable assumptions, which-"†
Chpt 3.5
- There was a time, she thought, when his mind, his energy, his inexhaustible resourcefulness had been given to the task of a producer devising better ways to deal with nature; now, they were switched to the task of a criminal outwitting men.†
Chpt 3.5
- They acted like savages performing a ritual devised to set them free of objective reality.†
Chpt 3.5
- …dozens of switches to clear a chosen course and dozens of signals to light it, with no error left possible, no chance, no contradiction —an enormous complexity of thought condensed into one movement of a human hand to set and insure the course of a train, that hundreds of trains might safely rush by, that thousands of tons of metal and lives might pass in speeding streaks a breath away from one another, protected by nothing but a thought, the thought of the man who devised the levers.†
Chpt 3.5
- You would not be able to desire the clothes that had not been made, the automobile that had not been invented, the money that had not been devised, as exchange for goods that did not exist, the admiration that had not been experienced for men who had achieved nothing, the love that belongs and pertains only to those who preserve their capacity to think, to choose, to value.†
Chpt 3.7
- Let the caveman who does not choose to accept the axiom of identity, try to present his theory without using the concept of identity or any concept derived from it-let the anthropoid who does not choose to accept the existence of nouns, try to devise a language without nouns, adjectives or verbs-let the witchdoctor who does not choose to accept the validity of sensory perception, try to prove it without using the data he obtained by sensory perception —let the head-hunter who does not…†
Chpt 3.7
- Theirs is a system of white blackmail devised to bleed you, not by means of your sins, but by means of your love for existence.†
Chpt 3.7
- Mr. Thompson wishes it to be known that he is willing to negotiate with John Galt for the purpose of devising ways and means to achieve a speedy solution of our problems.†
Chpt 3.8
- Rewards and honors were offered to applicants for managerial jobs —then to foremen-then to skilled mechanics-then to any man who would make an effort to deserve a promotion in rank: wage raises, bonuses, tax exemptions and a medal devised by Wesley Mouch, to be known as "The Order of Public Benefactors."†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(devise as in: devise a plan) to come up with a way of doing something -- typically a creative idea or plan