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«...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?»
«Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.»
«Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.»
«A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.»
«Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.»
«A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.»
«A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: clever, none, troubles, turns
«Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.»
«Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare»
«Clever tyrants are never punished.»

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