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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me."

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Wes Smith Musician
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"Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine."

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Ted Nelson Computer Scientist
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"Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong."

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist
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"Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool."

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Thornton Wilder Playwright, Novelist, Poet
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"But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone."

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Robert Jordan Author
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"It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one."

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