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• Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

  Confucius

  Justice, Virtue, Impatience

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• But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven – number seven it can count. They have made an observation. They are very clever birds.

  R. K. Laxman

  Numbers, Childhood, Bird

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• Up until now, I believed the nuclear threat to the U.S. from Iran was limited to the ability of terrorists to penetrate the borders or port security to deliver a device to a major city. ...While that threat should continue to be a grave concern for every American, these tests by Iran demonstrate just how devious the fanatical mullahs in Tehran are. We are facing a clever and unscrupulous adversary in Iran that could bring America to its knees.

  Joseph Farah

  Iran, Cities, America

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• Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.

  Neville Goddard

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

  Neville Goddard (2014). “Awakened Imagination: Includes The Search”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.

  Thom Yorke

  Wish, Ifs, Millions

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• The world is as you are.

  David Lynch

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

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• There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

  J. B. Priestley

  Genius, Too Much, Young Writers

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• You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

  Mary MacLane

  Girl, Writing, Heart

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• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  Edward Gibbon

  Education, Ideas, People

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• Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early.... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.

  John Lee Mahin

  Children, Names, Musician

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• You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Eye, Successful, Giving

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• In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

  James Denney

  Church, Wonderful, Christ

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• The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Wise, Lying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 617), 1895.

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• When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

  Eddie Vedder

  Stars, Fun, Believe

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• I love Lady Gaga! I think she's incredible. I think she's so clever - you know, about what she wears and when she does it. Plus, her music is just incredible. You can really compare her to Madonna now - she's really amazing.

  Kerry Ellis

  Thinking, Doe, Incredibles

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story.

  H. L. Mencken

  Eye, Psych, Hands

  The American Mercury Magazine, p. 136, May 1933.

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• There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

  Steven Hall

  Writing, Together, Facts

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• The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.

  Heinrich Heine

  Gazelles, Mood, Gentle

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.68

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• Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Style, Labels, Buying

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• There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

  Al Yankovic

  Fashion, Song, Humorous

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Design, Needs, Sometimes

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• Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Able, Endure

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• Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Two, Cruelty

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.308, Bantam

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