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The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the… — Sun Tzu
Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes… — Sun Tzu
A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the… — Sun Tzu
When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And… — Sun Tzu
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to… — Frank Moore Colby
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. — Jerome K. Jerome
People think you can't be clever if you have breasts. — Kelly Brook
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. — Margot Asquith
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid. — George Bernard Shaw
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to… — Wilt Chamberlain
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment. — Laozi
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any… — Robert Breault
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you… — Tom Stoppard
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who… — Charles Darwin
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. — Irving Layton
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel… — Sri Chinmoy
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already… — Louise Brown
It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind. — Unknown Author
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. — Israel Zangwill

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