“ If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.". ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. ”
- Lucille Ball- Copy
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“ Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. ”
- Aristophanes- Copy
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“ The wise man is but a clever infant spelling letters from a hierographical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The first principle of success is desire — knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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“ Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
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“ There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
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“ Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ”
- Don Herold- Copy
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“ Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity. ”
- John Brown- Copy
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“ A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! - Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them. ”
- Douglas Everett- Copy
- 3K
“ Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.1K
“ All substances the cunning chemist TimeMelts down into that liquor of my life. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3K
“ If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.6K
“ He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. ”
- Antonio Porchia- Copy
- 93
“ There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 3.4K
“ People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists. ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
- 2.9K
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