"Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls."
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"Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards."
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"The wisest fool in Christendom."
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"Only fools don't contradict themselves"
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"I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice."
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"Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby."
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"Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied."
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"I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to."
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"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."
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"Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree"
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"You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself"
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"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread."
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"It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies."
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"Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own."
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"Only the fools are certain and assured."
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"The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money."
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"There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good."
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"To be a fool at the right time is also an art."
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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"The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed."
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