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Tag Name "Cleverness" (89)

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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.
Jeff Bezos
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Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.
George MacDonald
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
Oscar Wilde
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cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?
Cassandra Clare
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Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever
Criss Jami
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cleverness is a disease.
Rumer Godden
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Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.
Tessa Dare
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You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.
Mary J. Miller
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.
Humphrey Bogart
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
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It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.
Jaco Pastorius
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Oh, the cleverness of me!
James M. Barrie
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein
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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
Ambrose of Optina
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The key is not money organization, cleverness, or education. Are you and I seeing the results Peter saw? Are we bringing thousands of men and women to Christ the way he did? If not, we need to get back to His power source.
Jim Cymbala
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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog and I have similar experiences with mankind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John Climacus
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An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
Baltasar Gracian
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Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.
John Sayles
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Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc
Bryce Courtenay
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... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.
Keith Jarrett
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