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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States."

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Rebecca Miller Filmmaker, Writer
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"Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen"

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible."

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever."

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