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Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. -- Lennox Lewis
One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market. -- John Allen Paulos
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. -- Simone de Beauvoir
each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents. -- Lucy Freeman
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations. -- Bill Bryson
They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business. -- Kenneth Roberts
Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor. -- Jim Holt
You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal. -- Peter Malam Brothers
A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her. -- Walter Kirn

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