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“Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.”

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Author:Jon Voight

“Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.”

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Book:More Stately Mansions

Source: More Stately Mansions

“No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.”

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Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

“Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

“It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.”

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Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“A cunning woman is a knavish fool.”

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Author:George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

“Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.”

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Author:Wallace Stegner

“Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.”

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Author:Giacomo Casanova