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In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!
Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.
Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation
You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Be completely honest - have you ever met someone who you thought was truly clever or interesting or witty who wore fawn?
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop
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.
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.
I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.
I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.
Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade
It's Leo Messi. It's very difficult to stop this guy because he's very quick, very clever. But, look, it's not impossible.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?
Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.
When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!
From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!
Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
How long does it take to make 'They Think It's All Over?' It's just laughing at each other and thinking, 'Aren't we clever?'
I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it.
Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.
The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.