"Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work."
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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
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"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
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"Anger is a weed; hate is a tree"
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"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."
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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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"Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!"
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"There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life."
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"Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise."
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"Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later."
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"A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet."
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"Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents."
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"there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?"
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
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"Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
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"Have you ever heard the earth breath?"
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"There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting!"
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"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."
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