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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

Adah Isaacs Menken / Actress
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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

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Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.

Adah Isaacs Menken Actress

There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

Adah Isaacs Menken Actress

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Adah Isaacs Menken Actress

All true success flows out of giving something to someone.

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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Physiologist

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

Amelia Warner Actress

If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.

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I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

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The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.

Antony Beevor Historian

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

Arthur Conan Doyle Physician

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