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I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. — Anthony Hopkins
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. — Kin Hubbard
Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping. — Marc Jacobs
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner… — Mick Jagger
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. — William James
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. — Charles Kettering
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. — Charles Kingsley
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. — Rudyard Kipling
It's clever, but is it Art? — Rudyard Kipling
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. — Jonathan Kozol
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any… — Hugh Laurie
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. — Sam Levenson
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. — C.S. Lewis
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. — Abraham Lincoln
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess. — Ken Livingstone
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. — Unknown Author
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. — James Lovelock
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of… — James Lovelock
I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny… — John Lydon
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. — Norm MacDonald
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. — Archibald MacLeish
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. — Niccolo Machiavelli
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz

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