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Tag Name "Outwitting" (8)

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Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor'.
Jim Holt
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They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.
Kenneth Roberts
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each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.
Lucy Freeman
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You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.
Peter Malam Brothers
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One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.
John Allen Paulos
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Boxing isn't just about brute strength it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
Lennox Lewis
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Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.
Pankaj Mishra
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
Simone de Beauvoir