Bertrand Russell - Quotes

 A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.



 

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A.A. Milne - Quotes

 Rabbit's clever, 

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Holly Black - Quotes

 Clever as the Devil, and twice as pretty. 

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Chuck Palahniuk - Quotes

 Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks they're clever. I tell her to type in 'password 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say! 

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Mark Helprin - Quotes

 I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn 

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Theodore Roosevelt - Quotes

 When your at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on 

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Cesare Pavese - Quotes

 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. 

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Agatha Christie - Quotes

 They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing. 

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Carl Sagan - Quotes

 Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure that the natives are not humoring you or pulling your leg? Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriant Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. When asked how children were conceived, they supplied him with an elaborate mythic structure prominently featuring celestial intervention. Amazed, Malinowski objected that was not how it was done at all, and supplied them instead with the version so popular in the West today  

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Brian Celio - Quotes

 I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. 

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T.S. Eliot - Quotes

 We know so much more than the ancients. Yes; and they are exactly what we know. 

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Mervyn Peake - Quotes

 I am clever enough to know that I am clever. 

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - Quotes

 A clever man commits no minor blunders. 

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Mark Haddon - Quotes

 Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. 

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Wendell Berry - Quotes

 What I stand for is what I stand on. 

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Mark Twain - Quotes

 Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.  

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