"The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman."
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"Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets."
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"Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists."
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
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"I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?"
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"Belief gets in the way of learning."
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"The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him."
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"It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated."
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"It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid."
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"The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them."
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"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
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"In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea."
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"I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy."
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"Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!""
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"Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon."
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"Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out."
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"[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
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"You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you."
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"God is clever, but not dishonest."
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"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile."
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