Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Clever Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

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All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.

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