#lever

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#devil #education #make #man #more

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#clever #crazy #least #many #minds

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st! ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#always #clever #everything #first #five

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#boy #clever #could #express #far

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#clever man #ever #fantastic #funniest #here

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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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

#advertising #believe #buy #clever #commercial

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

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