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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
A. A. GILL
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“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”
Winston Churchill
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Albert Schweitzer
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Chinua Achebe
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu
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Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
Kate Moss
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Sylvia Plath
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire
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Saki
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese
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She was so young that love was still a game to her. . . . She was being neither fair nor clever, but Babette was only nineteen years old.
H.C. Andersen
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Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.
Franz Beckenbauer
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...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
Edith Wharton
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
Kate Chopin
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I’m not saying I’m different. I’m not saying I’m clever, I’ve just worked my whole life to rebuild myself after I was fired.
Raymond Ackerman
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There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
Thomas Mann
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Billy Wilder
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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Aleister Crowley
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Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
Anita Roddick
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
Wendell Berry
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
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War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.
Ernest Becker
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Cleverness is not wisdom
Euripides
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
Jonathan Kozol
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