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• This person called up and said, You've got to come and take this seminar. It will completely change your life in just one weekend. And I said, Well, I don't want to completely change my life this weekend. I've got a lot of things to do on Monday.

  Rick Fields

  Funny, Monday, Smart

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• Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?

  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

  Men, Shoes, Feet

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• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
  A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
  Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man;
  But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
  I never made a mistake in my life;
  At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mistake, Men, Males

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• Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Flower, Cities

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• City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Cities, Mad

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• There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Real, Thinking, Reform

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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• Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

  Brian Tracy

  Average, People, Focus

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• I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.

  Jason Lee

  Morning, Smart, School

  "Jason Lee ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Kids, Writing

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• Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  People, Important, Stories

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• The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Names

  "Mitch All Together". Live Album by Mitch Hedberg, 2003.

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• The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Funny, Humor, Intelligent

  1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.10.

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• The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan.

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Christian, Men, Promise

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• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  Ian Anderson

  Successful, Artist, Boys

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• I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

  David Archuleta

  Wish

  "Exclusive David Archuleta Interview!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

  Alexander McQueen

  Creativity, People, Up To You

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• To lead a child (or anyone else!), even inadvertently, away from faithfulness, away from loyalty and bedrock belief simply because we want to be clever or independent is license no parent nor any other person has ever been given.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Loyalty, Children, Independent

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• Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

  Arundhati Roy

  Oxford, Persons

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.56, Penguin Books India

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• The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Law, Coercion

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

  Charlie Munger

  Innovation, Needs, Dozen

  "Charlie Munger's Thoughts on the World: Part 1". Charlie Munger's speech at the Wesco Financial Annual Meeting "A Morning With Charlie" in Los Angeles, www.fool.com. July 2, 2011.

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• I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, People, I Realized

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• Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Fool, Mystery

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Worst, Knows

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.60, Whitaker House

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• Those who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate it look for ever more-clever ways to acquire it without inciting resistance. One of those ways is the spreading of an elaborate ideology of statism, which teaches that the people are the state and that therefore they are only paying themselves when they pay taxes.

  Sheldon Richman

  People, Wish, Looks

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• It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

  Keith Jarrett

  Sorry, Voice, World

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