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• It’s actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you’re dealing drugs. If you get caught you’re going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it’s much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Punishment, Drug, Risk

  "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

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• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Humorous, Government

  "Parliament of Whores". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1991.

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• It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Technology, Mind

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

  Will Rogers

  Smart, Book, Communication

  "The Will Rogers Book".

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• People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Letting Go, Humorous

  Will Rogers (1992). “Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies”, p.44, University of Oklahoma Press

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• By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

  Mitt Romney

  Cutting, Government, Reform

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• Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

  Marat Safin

  Court

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• Every time I think I’m getting smarter I realize that I’ve just done something stupid. Dad says there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know; those who don’t know and do know they don’t know; and those who know and know how much they still don’t know. Heavy stuff, I know. I think I’ve finally graduated from the don’t-knows that don’t know to the don’t-knows that do.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dad, Stupid, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 21, 2014

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• smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.

  Marian Keyes

  Letting Go, Dream, Attitude

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• Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place." He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.

  Cassandra Clare

  Regret, Lying, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

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• How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fighting, Simple, Thinking

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2009). “The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time”, p.576, Macmillan

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• ...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Because I Can, I Can

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• Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Becoming, Building

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• Education doesn't make you smarter.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

  Kim Harrison

  Ivy, Empty, Felt

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• Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and more qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.

  Howard Schultz

  Letting Go, Moving, Numbers

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• This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

  Steven Johnson

  Smart, Crowds, Individual

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.42, Penguin

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• I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.

  Veronica Roth

  Care, Toes, Heartbeat

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• People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Wings, People

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.49, Anchor

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• Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Love Is, Thinking, Rights

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• What are you?” I said irritably. “In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I’m stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don’t apologize to the gazelle when I take it down.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Stronger, Would Be, Gazelles

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.588, Dell

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• For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

  Gordon Korman

  Real, Idiot, Sometimes

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• Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Love, Running, Deserve You

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• You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.

  John Waters

  Motivational, Stupid, Book

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• I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Average, Guy, Claims

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