Cleverness Quotes
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.
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Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
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Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
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Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.
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The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
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Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
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It's good to be clever but cleverness should be muted and buried in the sand. Nobody should be able to detect it but me.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
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Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.
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A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.
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If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.
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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
