“If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“Von dem Bach is so clever he can do anything, get around anything.”
Adolf Hitler, as quoted in The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II (1978) by Thomas D. Parrish and Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, p. 45
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Arlo Guthrie (1947) American folk singer
The Chorus of the song. The only part that is actually sung in the song. At the end of the performance, after the first line is sung, Arlo will quickly add in the phrase "Excepting Alice."
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1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
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“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
John Jay Chapman, Practical Agitation (1900), ch.7
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John D. Carmack (1970) American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman
Quoted in Tom Ham, "Interview: John Carmack" http://archive.gamespy.com/interviews/april01/carmack/ gamespy.com (2004-01)
“You’ll never fashion anything clever by drinking water!”
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Pytine ("The Wineflask")
“One can never do anything so beautiful as nature.”
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
Source: Rodin : the man and his art, with leaves from his notebook, 1917, p. 300