Cunning Quotes
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one`s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.
Buddha
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[About the "Equus" paparazzi]: They were outside the theatre every single night, but we came up with a cunning ruse. I would wear the same outfit every time - a different T-shirt underneath, but I`d wear the same jacket and zip it up so they couldn`t see ...
Daniel Radcliffe
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The security has let us down badly here. The department is obviously very embarrassed by this. Cole is cunning and he is a great threat to the public.
Ian McLean
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The fact is that America`s weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
Arundhati Roy
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the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.
Bertie Ahern
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Alex Mosson
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
Andy Ritchie
Subject: Love QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Alvina Tan
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It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
Andrei Lankov
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet
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`Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,` Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said` `Industrialism,` he declared, `is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be...
Ann Donovan
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. Alvarez
