Clever Quotes
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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.
Thomas Sowell
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A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?
Trenton Lee Stewart
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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.
Wilt Chamberlain
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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.
Catherine Austin Fitts
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It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.
Thomas Sowell
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There is nothing Clever about not being Happy.
Arnaud Desjardins
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Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
George Pell
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
Melissa Etheridge
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If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
Marvin Minsky
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It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives
William C. Dement
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You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row
Eddie Long
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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel
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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.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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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.
Nick Bostrom
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...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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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.
Jonathan Kozol
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
Lao Tzu
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Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.
Erno Rubik
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Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.
Marc Platt