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clever two people
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others. Baltasar Gracian
clever wine mind
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes
clever nice heart
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? Charles Bukowski
clever england fans special supported sure tickets ways
England fans are very clever and have special ways of getting tickets and I'm sure we'll be well supported in Australia. Michael Vaughan
clever truth editors
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast? Douglas Hofstadter
clever war soldier
War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. Alberto Moravia
clever creativity people
Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again. Alexander McQueen
clever men cases
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned Duke of Wellington
clever humility pride
Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive. Dalai Lama
envy water grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. Debbie Macomber
envy compare
You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life. Anna Camp
envy waste needs
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. Regina Brett
envy temples glory
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. Mason Cooley
envy done directors
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. Griffin Dunne
envy noble overcoming
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free. Jiddu Krishnamurti
envy gossip criticism
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain
envy insult accepted
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them. Paulo Coelho
envy reassurance illusion
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority. John Berger
blind conflict ethics required rules senate senator trust weak
The Senate ethics rules are so weak that a senator is not required to set up a blind trust if there is a conflict of interest. Craig Holman
blind exactly excited knew living maybe signing
To some extent, she did. She knew who he was, and I think that was part of what excited her about him. She didn't know exactly what she was signing up for, maybe she didn't know how it would feel to be living this life. But she was not blind to what was going to be happening. Edie Falco
blinds cleaning difficult home
What's difficult about cleaning blinds at home is that it's very messy. Michael Sullivan
blinders hip plow slow stay trends true
We just plow through it all. We put the blinders on and just go. We don't slow down for trends or what's not hip anymore. We just stay true to ourselves. James Hetfield
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It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. Robert Green Ingersoll
blind pale lost
Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank! Pablo Neruda
blind-spots medicine people
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing. Michael Crichton
blind hope idealism inspire proverb
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back. Don Henley
blind both fall leaders leaders-and-leadership shall
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Bible Bible