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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

  Smile, Eye, Kissing

  Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa Harad (2004). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

  Leon Joseph Suenens

  Success, Wise, Dream

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• The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Wicked, Wickedness

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• The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.

  Doug Fields

  Men, Skills, Ideas

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• Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Integrity, Knowing

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• As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.

  C. D. Broad

  Philosophy, Philosophical, People

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• In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Positive, Wise, Spiritual

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• It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They can come up with inventive solutions others would never think of.

  Keren Woodward

  Character, Intelligent, Thinking

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• At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fighting, Ideas, People

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• I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Drama, Humor

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• A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

  Ricky Gervais

  Funny, Sexy, Glasses

  "Fictional character: David Brent". TV Series "The Office" ("Downsize", 2001), 2001-2003.

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• Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

  Gustav Nossal

  Leadership, Education, Country

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• Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  True Power, Expression, Should Have

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• Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

  George Pell

  Causes, Energy, Environment

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• Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

  Herbert

  Faith, Civilization, Broken

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• You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and another is trying too hard. Why one video is brilliantly entertaining and another is cheesy. Bottom line: you should want to do great work with a great team-no matter the cost.

  Jason Calacanis

  Team, Illustration, Cheesy

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• If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

  Prince Charles

  Crush, Children, Father

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• People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Fall, People

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.393, A&C Black

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• A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Men, Foolish Man

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

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• These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care about him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to the entities, and he increasingly concludes that their involvement with him is something 'good,' he also remains terrified of them and uncertain as to what they are.

  John Ankerberg

  Thinking, Care, Enough

  John Ankerberg (1992). “The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena”, Harvest House Pub

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• Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

  Tom Baker

  Children, Bullied, Plenty

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• The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Names, Way, Advertising

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Sep 25, 2014

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• Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple...when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Wise, Believe, Simple

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• Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

  Robert Breault

  Past, Ideas, Wire

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