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Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too. -- George W. Bush
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. -- Minna Antrim
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. -- Mason Cooley
It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience. -- Twyla Tharp
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all. -- Daniel Craig
Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself. -- John Frusciante
I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer. -- Dave Lombardo
Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them. -- Larry Fitzgerald
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. -- E. B. White
Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do. -- Nancy Gibbs
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness. -- Kate Forsyth
I outwit them, and then I outhit them -- Muhammad Ali
One may outwit another, but not all the others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit. -- Jim Davis
We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries. -- S. J. Perelman
Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself. -- Steven Erikson
The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons. -- James A. Baldwin
The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies. -- Charles W. Penrose
We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it. -- Vernon Howard
The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management. -- Douglas McGregor
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now. -- Rumi
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. -- Ted Hughes
If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish. -- Harold Geneen
If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them. -- Doris Betts
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers? -- Criss Jami
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture. -- Margaret Mead
Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back. -- Kate Atkinson
Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else -- Daniel Handler
If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be. -- Criss Jami
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them. -- Laurence Sterne

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