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Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time. Elaine Stritch
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I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer. Antonia Fraser
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Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people. Bertrand Russell
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We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal. Bobby Robson
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The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator. Christopher Fowler
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I think in fact the regime, which initially thought they had been very clever in getting him elected ... realize they've got a tiger by the tail. I don't think they're all that pleased about it. Gary Sick
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. E. F. Schumacher
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To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it George Bernard Shaw
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Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent. Michael Young
fighting men style
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting. C. S. Lewis
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Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.
fighting always-trying kind
I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with. Carrie Brownstein
fighting chocolate battle
I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds. Carrie Underwood
fighting coward charming
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words. Carl Reiner
fighting gun two
When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.
fighting past choices
The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life. Bill Vaughan
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That whole Connecticut thing is tough. It's a tough situation. We're off the radar. Like nobody's really talking about us, but they are. So no matter what, Connecticut's always going to come out of somebody's mouth whether it's negative, positive. It's been tougher this year than any year for me. It's something that we've done a really good job of fighting through, and I think that's why we are in the position we're in right now.
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The mission we are about is something that truly energises me. I feel that at Lockheed Martin we have the opportunity to make a difference... supporting men and women fighting for our peace and freedom.
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On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film. Denis Villeneuve
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I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. Cecil Rhodes
ideas needs sometimes
sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin. Cecelia Ahern
ideas jars cookies
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed. Carrie Fisher
ideas persons my-own
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. Carl Rogers
ideas return becoming
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.
ideas fiction firsts
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. Carl Sagan
ideas littles merit
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
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The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.