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Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff.

Needless to say, from that day on I became far more diligent about doing code audits.

I wish the FBI was as diligent at pursuing corporate malfeasance.

There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers.

He is a very smart and diligent guy but he had very little practical machine shop experience.

This cognitive dissonance will likely make me even more diligent in ensuring Mozilla is an equitable place to work.

As part of their purchase agreement WhatsApp likely needed to say that they had been diligent in maintaining and defending their copyrights and trademark.

One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.

Not true, Ron Paul ideas are ideas of libertarianism and if you study them diligent enough, you'll eventually be used to thinking in this framework.

Also unlike _Applied_, _Practical_ is diligent about recognizing the limitations of mass-market technical books; it explains things just as often to convince you not to implement things as it does to motivate you to implement them.

The reason fads can be successful usually have less to do with the specific mechanics and minutiae of their gospel and more to do with the fact that you're conscientious about what you're putting into your body and diligent about treating it well.

I didn't really care about it, figuring that their studying habits were much more diligent than mine, until one time I arrived in the classroom 45 minutes early and found out a sizable proportion of them were merrily exchanging answers and copying off of each other.