"sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy"
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"Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses."
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"I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions."
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"I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions."
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"My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary."
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"America eats its youth like reptiles...Educat e yourself before they dumb you down."
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"The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb."
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"We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating."
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"The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck."
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"I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization."
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"Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions."
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"Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come."
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"When war is raging the laws are dumb."
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"For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms."
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"Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman."
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"Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words."
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"The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense."
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"Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb."
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"Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone."
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"I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. "What happened to my mirror?" I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over."
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