"Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind."
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"Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect."
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"Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology."
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"Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language."
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"The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth"
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"To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count."
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"Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake."
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"I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards."
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"The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them."
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"Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb."
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"Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer"
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"Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person."
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"Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!"
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"In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away."
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"If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip"
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"A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long."
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"I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me."
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"This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid."
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"I am aware of the changes, but in no sense am I believer that we live in a post-racial society. That's a description of our inheritance and that is theirs, which is inescapable. It is doesn't matter if you are from New England or Mississippi. You're an American. It doesn't matter if you are white, black, brown, or Asian. It is part of American society. You'd have to be blind, deaf, or dumb not to know it. The emphasis on color or the fear of it, is all part of the same dark flower. I am trying to point to that and to bring it all the way back from Senegal."
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"He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."
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