Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
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Imbeciles
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Harlan Ellison
Author
"The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it"
Ayn Rand
Philosopher, Novelist
"Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought."
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone."
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"Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile."
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"Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak."
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"It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves."
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"The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one."
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"As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses."
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