#clever

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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Heard, Seen, and Dunn et al. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#witty #witty

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. ↗

— Mark Twain

#clever #exclamation-point #writing #writing-advice

I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

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Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#choice #cleverness #good-looks #questions #beauty

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 will erupt, sooner or later. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#cleverness #come #down #green #heights

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

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A clever man commits no minor blunders. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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