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• The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Taken, Thinking, Sick

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.

  Erich Fromm

  Clever, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.

  Tony Benn

  War, Giving, Office

  Source: think-left.org

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• Audiences are very sophisticated and they know the nuts and bolts of the genre - certainly with horror more than others I think. But they attract lots of people, they're much derided as a genre but people go and see them and they're not all dumb. There's some very clever horror films. Stephen King gets a lot of flack for not being a proper writer because he's a horror writer, but I think he writes some brilliant books. I think it's wrong to just bin it before looking at it.

  Reece Shearsmith

  Clever, Book, Writing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Lars von Trier is very, very, very clever about women. He gives the woman a space that I don't know any filmmaker does. Because in Breaking The Waves, protagonist Emily Watson is the Christ. Which man is doing that? I don't know any man giving that space to a woman. No one.

  Chantal Akerman

  Clever, Men, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I mean, props to Paris Hilton because she's doing it really well and for someone that's such a wealthy heiress she doesn't really have to lift a finger at all. She was the first example of really strong branding and is obviously a very clever businesswoman. I remember recently they printed in a British magazine, they compared her to Kim Kardashian in the sales of perfume and all of this other stuff. She still makes huge revenue from all of her different business endeavors.

  Alexa Chung

  Strong, Clever, Mean

  "Alexa Chung Wants to Bring Uggs Back, 2002 Style". Interview with Nikki Ogunnaike, www.elle.com. October 7, 2016.

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• Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got two wonderful children, but his life is music. And he's very clever with it.

  Susan Ann Sulley

  Children, Clever, Mad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

  Maureen Dowd

  Clever, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

  David Cronenberg

  Sex, Clever, Disease

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• At uni I met a lot of people I had nothing in common with. Some were very clever, some very rich, some very sporty. Some of them became my best friends, but not at first. Having things in common isn't always the best start to a friendship. I'd stick with it! Also, try to chat to people when they're on their own. So many people feel they need to perform in big groups.

  John Robins

  Clever, People, Trying

  "Ask John: university advice from comedian John Robins". The Telegraph interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 16, 2017.

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• Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

  Mickey Rooney

  Clever, Unique, Men

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• Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

  Vandana Shiva

  Clever, Diversity, Perspective

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things to set up other people; he could shoot and he could score goals. If you gave me Paul Scholes and ten others, I would be happy. I would tell them to give him the ball and then we would have a good team.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Clever, Team, Giving

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• Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Fighting, Russia, Long

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.

  Bob Dole

  Clever, White, House

  "Dole to unveil Reaganesque economic plan". www.cnn.com. August 5, 1996.

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• It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out

  Gene Simmons

  Clever, Block, Kids

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• [Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Clever, Nice, Stupid

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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• But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

  Pope Pius X

  Clever, Teaching, Reality

  Pope Pius X's Encyclical letter "Pascendi dominici gregis", w2.vatican.va. September 8,1907.

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• The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

  Thomas Sowell

  Zero, Real, Law

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.55, Hoover Press

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• I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.

  Paul Auster

  Clever, Boys, Thinking

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.

  David Allen

  Clever, Stupid, Focus

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Part of the freedom in directing, for me, is that I'm also the camera operator. That's the place where things are less rigid, where I can adjust as I go along.

  Patrice Leconte

  Clever, Giving, Cameras

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Clever, Today, Appeasement

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• I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

  Craig Ferguson

  Clever, Crazy, Causes

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• Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

  Glenn Close

  Witty, Clever, Fun

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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