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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. — Edgar Allan Poe
Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama,… — Tom Shales
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that… — Lech Walesa
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt… — Helen Fisher
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which… — Nick Hornby
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into… — Elwyn Brooks White
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart… — Benjamin Constant
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. — Bertrand Russell
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever,… — Dalai Lama
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed… — Upton Sinclair
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the… — Soren Kierkegaard
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins-… — Jonathan Stroud
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much… — Jane Austen
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition.… — Susan Sontag
As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe… — Amin Maalouf
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any… — Bill Bryson
Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to… — Lisi Harrison
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another… — Clifton Fadiman
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful,… — Miguel de Cervantes
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all… — Robert A. Heinlein

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