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• Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are.

  Robert L. Bartley

  Groups, Minorities, Unions

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• Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Book, Tough Questions, Political

  "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.

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• Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

  Susan Jeffers

  Wise, Wisdom, Silence

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• Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Wise, Wisdom, Ocean

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• Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Hard Work, Pyramids

  Interview on September 20, 1988. Included in "Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5" DVD No. 7, "Mission Logs: Year Five/A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry",

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• Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sweet, Men, Numbers

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.221

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• The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Becoming, Appearing

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• A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Lying, Men, Progress

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• The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Intellectual, Maids

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

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• We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world.

  Brian Henson

  Condolences, Joy, Fans

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• Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Fall, People

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• There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Appreciate, Evil

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• Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stupid, Men, Eugenics

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• Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

  Stephen Leacock

  Tired, Reality, People

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “My Discovery of England”, p.101, The Floating Press

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• Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

  Curtis Jackson

  Gold, Enough, Worst

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• The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, World, Smarter

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.69, Random House

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• A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

  Euripides

  Anger, Men, Matter

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

  Euripides

  Medicine, Sick, Needs

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• If they are just, they are better than clever.

  Sophocles

  Justice, Ifs

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Death, Fall, Cutting

  "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

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• I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

  Paula Poundstone

  Witty, Mean, Thinking

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• I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

  Billy Joel

  Love, Want, Way

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Feb 01, 2013

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• Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Lying, Believe

  "7 Laws of Fearless Living" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2012.

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• The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Witty, Morning

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• The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Rip, Passion, Reflection

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