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Jai Ganesh

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Clever Quotes - III

Clever Quotes - III

1. A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. - William Makepeace Thackeray

2. Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. - George Bernard Shaw

3. A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever. - Roger Penrose

4. Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. - Benjamin Disraeli

5. Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked. - Kate Moss

6. You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire. - Kim Basinger

7. Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. Adolf Hitler

8. Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. - Bryan Adams.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.