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Letter "S" » shrewd
«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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burdened, come up, from time to time, interpreting, lawyers, shrewd, shrewdest, smart, Technicalities, technicality
«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)
| About:
Reading
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castles, Castles in The Air, castle in the air, characteristic, features, frustrated, in the air, shrewd, shrewdest, underlie, underlies, underlying
«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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aberration, aberrations, arrangement, ballots, ballot box, boxes, inoculate, inoculated, inoculating, one box, remarkably, revolt, shrewd, shrewdest
«Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn.»
«Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover... refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
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canny, double talk, refrain, Say Anything, shrewd
«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»
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