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- Nov 07, 2020
Cleverest Quotes
What it really means to be the cleverest.
These cleverest quotes range from a playful nod to marrying well as the cleverest decision ever made, to bigger questions about whether humans are really the Clever pinnacle of creation.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Galaxy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapiens really be the pinnacle of Creation - the cleverest critters in the cosmos? If we learn the answer is 'no,' that would affect our philosophies forever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BBC TV programme 'Back In Time For Dinner' doesn't just have one of the cleverest titles ever. It is a more-than-usually-serious attempt to recreate the recent past, the day before yesterday.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020