#lever

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

#clever #clever man #commits #man #minor

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#brain #cannot #cave #clever #comprehend

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'. ↗

— Morris Hite

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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

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I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other. ↗

— Neil Innes

#desperately #girl #go #guys #handle

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ↗

— Jane Alexander

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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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