Clever Quotes
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The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Every system that we build will surprise us with new kinds of flaws until those machines become clever enough to conceal their faults from us.
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They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
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It's clever, but is it Art?
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.
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If you're racist you're not that clever. I mean, you couldn't even figure out that we're all the f---ing same
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If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
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With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.
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Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
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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.
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He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
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A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
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A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
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Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.
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There is nothing Clever about not being Happy.
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Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.
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I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
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Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
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No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
