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Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!
You and Teacher,” said Molly. “Yes,” said Peter. “She’s very clever. You’ll like her.” “I’m sure,” said Molly.
Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
I haven't just got a fight IQ - and I'm clever. I've got that power. I've got that movement. I've got that timing.
If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!
The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
I've been very lucky to work in a newsroom where there are lots of strong, funny, clever women in senior positions.
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
Obama spoke so slowly because he, a clever and cultured man, had constantly to be on his guard against sounding it.
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!
With all the clever brains in America it would be great to see more investment and focus on this essential research!
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.