#lever

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#archimedes #brain #did #direction #door

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

#clever man #cynic #enough #man #takes

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#culture #even #feel #great #great power

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. ↗

— Leon Kass

#cleverness #far #how #how far #limits

Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#eat #garage #guys #leverage #shorts

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

#always #battle #better #chinese #classics

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ↗

— Walter Kerr

#clever #composed #enough #half #idiots

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

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#because #chosen #clever #i #mistake

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#any #awoke #begin #child #clever