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• While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn’t unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.

  Gary Hamel

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• It’s the word ‘artful’; it’s such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it – I’ve been preoccupied with the word ‘artful’ and the twin notions of ‘cornucopia’ and ‘pickpocket’ it suggests for quite some time.

  Ali Smith

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• On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

  Cristina Saralegui

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• I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

  Renee Vivien

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• Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

  Francis Beaumont

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• If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

  Peter York

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• The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.

  William Hazlitt

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• These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

  Giraldus Cambrensis

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  Tags in Intellect, Cunning, Inhabitants, Sharp

• Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

  Aldous Huxley

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