"Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new."

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Source : "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". Book by Mark Haddon, May, 2003.

Mark Haddon

#Clever Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Something New Quotes

“The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.”
“I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the peopleâ€”we the peopleâ€”are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.”
“Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”
“Enough of blood and tears. Enough!”
“Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.”
“Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen; Bright skies will soon be o'er me, where the dark clouds have been. My hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free, My Savior has my treasure, and He will walk with me.”

Source : Anna Laetitia Waring, “In Heavenly Love Abiding”
“Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.”
“My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.”

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