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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.


George P. Baker


#between #clever #comedy #depends #difference

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#enough #get #money #must #stupid

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.


Russell Banks


#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.


Whitfield Diffie


#application #clever #concern #cryptography #deep

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#interest #levers #men #moved #only

The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.


Vince Cable


#being #between #degree #global #imbalances

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.


Tony Campolo


#clever #contrived #country #does #go

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.


Tina Fey


#big #even #family #go #grew

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.


Jim Dale


#clean #clever #comedic #easy #get

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






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