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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now / History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?. (Quote by - Pablo Casals)

The child learns to worship money and the things which money can buy; he admires cruelty and cunning, rather than Sympathy and Love. So, the Home, the School and the Society have to rise and take up this challenge posed to the future of this great land. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him. (Quote by - Francis Bacon Sr.)

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning, yelling works better. (Quote by - Cynthia Ozick)

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. (Quote by - Ovid)

The greatest cunning is to have none at all. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty. (Quote by - Jean Genet)

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically inexpedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight. (Quote by - Bible)

Koizumi has been very cunning and sly by showing this drama as reform-minded forces versus old-fashioned forces. (Quote by - Takao Toshikawa)

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)

It's a mammoth task. We don't have the resources in terms of our treasury departments, we don't have financial investigators who even think in a crafty, cunning way. (Quote by - Magnus Ranstorp)

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine. (Quote by - Sean O'Casey)

Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. (Quote by - Bible)

Japan is now hell-bent on grasping countries for their purpose of adopting this resolution through dirty, cunning method and plot. (Quote by - Choe Myong Nam)

Cunning is a short blanket - if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet. (Quote by - Proverb)

Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work. (Quote by - Bible)

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. (Quote by - Peter York)

These incidents are definitely not always out in the open. We found that the targets view the instigators as cunning, that they might choose the setting for this to happen where they know others won't be able to see it. (Quote by - Christine Pearson)

When we say our ruler , we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. We must consider ourselves a symbolic, semantic class of life, and cannot cease from being s those who control the symbols rule us.(Quote by - Bankers, priests, lawyers politicians, [and news media] constitute one class [of our rulers] and work together. They do not produce any values but manipulate the values produced by others, and often pass signs for no value at all. Scientists and teachers also comprise a ruling class. They produce the main values mankind has, but, at present, they do not realize this. They are, in the main, ruled by the cunning methods of the first class. )

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

Over the past year, work-related crime in some areas and industries has occurred in large numbers. The amount of money has risen and the methods are ever-more cunning. (Quote by - Jia Chunwang)

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