"How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them."
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"If others had not been foolish, we should be so."
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"O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then."
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"Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results."
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"I look very foolish. To a lot of people I look foolish in what I'm doing and I understand that. The only thing that matters is how I feel and if I let how they feel affect me it'll change how I feel."
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"Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners."
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"I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me."
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"The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment."
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"Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish."
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"The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses."
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"Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech."
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"Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!"
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"Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish."
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"You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards."
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"I have a good brain on me but I've never really used it when it came to decisions about love... I definitely have been foolish."
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"We all do make foolish mistakes."
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"You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish."
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"Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself."
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"Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic."
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"Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I."
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