Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888)."
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Hippocrates
Physician
"Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients."
Upton Sinclair
Novelist, Activist
"It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."
Robert Hunter
Lyricist
"But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart"
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"Dare to wear the foolish clown face."
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"I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me."
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"He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things."
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"and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."
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"The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free."
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"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."
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"The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now."
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"You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish."
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"Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk."
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"But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?"
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"It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question."
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"A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish."
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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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"We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity."
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"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
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"Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims."
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"I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish."
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"Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors."
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"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
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"Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard."
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