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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested."

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Peter Gould Artist, Designer
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"In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience."

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Philip Roth Novelist
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"--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others"

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat."

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