Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity."
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Valentino Rossi
Motorcycle Racer
"The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life."
Antonin Scalia
Judge
"I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."
Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
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"If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?"
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"While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile."
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"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected."
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"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."
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"You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse."
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."
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"Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines."
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"The real you, the inner you, is pure, very pure. It's loving and it's magnanimous. It understands. It has patience. It is tolerant-it will wait forever while your ego trots all over everywhere trying to figure life out. It is pleasing to remember that back home there is a friend who's waiting for you to stop being silly, who's waiting to welcome you with open arms if and when you show up."
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"It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in."
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"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist."
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"Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up."
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"Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?"
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"Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking."
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"I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid."
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"This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them."
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"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down."
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"I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on."
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"And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman."
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"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love."
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