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A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack.
Snoop Dogg

Many will try to deceive you that lacking a college education makes one unintelligent, however common sense is paramount. This is what I learned from peddling narcotics.
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2.
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.
Erwin Rommel

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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
Noam Chomsky

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When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.
Nouman Ali Khan

5.
It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so
Ronald Reagan

'Liberals may be intelligent, but much of their knowledge is misguided.'
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Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.
Ernest Shackleton

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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Norm Crosby

When you enter the courtroom, you are entrusting your destiny to twelve individuals who were not savvy enough to evade jury service.
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It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.
Steve Jobs

'It is unavailing to recruit gifted individuals and dictate their actions; we seek skilled personnel so they can guide us.'
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It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.
Howard Gardner

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You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you.
Carlo Gambino

Be shrewd and courageous; have the cunning of a fox and the might of a lion, and you will never be defeated.
11.
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
George Carlin

12.
Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
Zaha Hadid

'Yes, I'm a feminist, for I deem all women as astute, talented and resilient.'
13.
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
Stephen Hawking

The conundrum of the intelligent is that they may appear irrational to those of lesser intellect.
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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have. “Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.
Woody Hayes

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When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits) success is about proving you’re smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other (the world of changing qualities) it’s about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.
Carol S. Dweck

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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'If I accept you in your current state, I will impede your progress; however, if I view you through the lens of what you could potentially become, I can aid in your development.'
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Whenever I’m about to have sex with a girl, I play it smart and just automatically assume she has herpes; because that way I don’t have to tell her about my herpes.
Anthony Jeselnik

Whenever I'm about to become intimate with a girl, I exercise caution and assume she has an STD; that way I can avoid divulging my own infection.
18.
All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me
Nipsey Hussle

All the savvy investors have faith in me / And all authentic people wish success for me.
19.
You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.
Adeline Yen Mah

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It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
Marilyn Monroe

It requires a clever blonde to portray an airheaded platinum.
21.
Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
Merle Haggard

'Trust is the only way we're going to succeed. None of us are capable enough to do it alone.'
22.
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Warren Buffett

"Defeat originates from arrogance, avarice, jealousy, trepidation, copying. I have achieved triumph not because of my intelligence, but rather due to my levelheadedness."
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Today's smart marketers don't sell products; they sell benefit packages. They don't sell purchase value only; they sell use value.
Philip Kotler

Today's savvy marketers don't sell items; they offer advantage bundles. They don't just provide monetary worth; they provide utility value.
24.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper

A prudent individual only takes into account half of what they are told, a sagacious person discerns which half is reliable.
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You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
Katharine Hepburn

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A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
Marilyn Monroe

'A prudent maiden recognizes her boundaries, an astute girl realizes she is boundless.'
27.
I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good.
Woody Hayes

'I have encountered intellectually superior individuals throughout my existence, but none of them can rival me when it comes to hard work. If an individual is not willing to put in the effort, their knowledge will be of no avail.'
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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard P. Feynman

No matter how convincing your hypothesis may be, or how clever you are, if it fails to align with reality, then it is incorrect.
29.
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
Vance Havner

30.
Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where the boss lets them have powder snow days off. And almost forty feet of snow falls every winter thats a lot of days off. A lot of doing what you moved here to do. Most major ski resorts are now so big that regardles of what kind ofjob you have in a city there's probably a job almost exactly like yours in a ski rsort like this. So quit your job and rent that U-haul trailer now so next winter this can be you. Not you just sitting there watching this and wishing that this was you.
Warren Miller

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Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.
Robert Greene

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When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.
Henry Mintzberg

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A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
Taeyang

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The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.
Daniel Berrigan

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When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit, and at the same time be exciting. That's what professional boxing is about. You've got to be clever, you've got to be smart, and not get hit, and when you're able to do this, you're a fighter.
Cus D'Amato

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Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.
Solanus Casey

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My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.
John Dominic Crossan

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Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.
Colin Chapman

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A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.
Marilyn Monroe

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God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.
Adrian Rogers

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A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

42.
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice
Gordon B. Hinckley

43.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
Bill Bowerman

45.
Nobody cares that you're smart and nobody cares that your kids don't have bruises.
Jim Jefferies

46.
Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.
P. J. O'Rourke

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Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.
Gina McCarthy

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You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.
Mark Rippetoe

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Everyone has an opinion. That's just a crazy part of this world now. You can type things on the internet. You can have no credentials in any area and just get on your smart phone and write whatever you want. I know where I come from and where I want to go. I know I'm 100% ready. Everyone else seems to have an opinion, and claim to know, whether I am or I'm not. I would love to see all the people who run their mouths try and do what I do. Because they can't.
Roman Reigns

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The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.
Ashton Kutcher