"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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"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions."
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"Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from."
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"It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance."
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"A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible."
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"Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons."
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"It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife."
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"As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time."
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"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it."
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"Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish."
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"The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right."
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"The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish."
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"Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them."
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"I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices."
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"We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish."
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"The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
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