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«A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.»
«We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
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«By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
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«When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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«Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn.»
«Those men who are happy in this world, who are generous towards their relatives, kind to strangers, indifferent to the wicked, loving to the good, shrewd in their dealings with the base, frank with the learned, courageous with enemies, humble with elders and stern with the wife.»
«Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is respelled by it.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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cunningly, deceives, meanest, shrewdest
«Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.»
«Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere, And we too wise to trust them»
«I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd - How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper Solitude is sweet»
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