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• Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

  Thomas J. Barratt

  Men, Design, Soap

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• To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Men, Political, World

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• The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Healing

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• 'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, March 15, 1965.

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• Don’t just create content to get credit for being clever — create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your target audience.

  David Ogilvy

  Target Audience, Interesting, Insightful

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• I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Huxley, Wit

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.443, Broadview Press

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• Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

  John Currin

  Style, Trying, Better Than You

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• This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we dont try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

  John Pilger

  Song, Children, War

  John Pilger (2003). “The New Rulers of the World”, p.10, Verso

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• The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

  John Keegan

  Fighting, Men, Chinese

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• Sir Alex has a special place in my life. In fact, he was the main man. I was not famous, I was not a star. I arrived at Old Trafford as just another young talent. He was the one who told me to do all the right things. He gave me the opportunity to play in one of the biggest clubs in the world. So he is one of the most important people in the world for me. I worked with Sir Alex for a few years and I know he deserves ­everything that he has achieved in his career. He works so hard, he is clever, he has experience, he is a human guy.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Stars, Men, Opportunity

  "EXCLUSIVE: Cristiano Ronaldo pays tribute to 'the best manager in the world'". www.mirror.co.uk. November 5, 2011.

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• In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the least part may be handed on without the Holy Scriptures. Do not be led astray by winning words and clever arguments. Even to me, who tell you these things, do not give ready belief, unless you receive from the Holy Scriptures the proof of the things which I announce. The salvation in which we believe is not proved from clever reasoning, but from the Holy Scriptures.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  Believe, Winning, Giving

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• Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Sacrifice, Men

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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• The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Country, War, Lying

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2211, Delphi Classics

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• In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Cities, People

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.25, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

  Roald Dahl

  Kids, Needs, Stories

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• It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.

  J. I. Packer

  Powerful, Heart, Men

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.70, InterVarsity Press

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• Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

  R. H. Tawney

  Wise, Men, Differences

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• The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all of its sickening crimes is making me sad again. But don't forget the songs that made you cry and the songs that saved your life.. Yes, you're older now and you're a clever swine. But they were the only ones who ever stood by you

  Steven Morrissey

  Song, Forget, Cry

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• It's harder to be kind than clever

  Jeff Bezos

  Be Kind, Kind, Harder

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• To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.

  Alexander Ostrovsky

  Artist, People, Soul

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• Is this true or only clever?

  Augustine Birrell

  Inspirational, Internet, Free Speech

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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Funny, Dream, Smart

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• May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"

  Danny Baker

  Funny, Smart, School

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• There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

  Simon Barnes

  Funny, Husband, Smart

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• "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

  Tom Shales

  Funny, Smart, Thinking

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