#clever

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

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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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Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake. ↗

— Alison Krauss

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I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. ↗

— Cornel West

#cheap #clever #distraction #gimmicks #mass

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. ↗

— Al Yankovic

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Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#foresight #africa

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. ↗

— Irving Layton

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