"It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her."
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"But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting."
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"The stupid and dishonest accountants allowed the genie of totally inappropriate accounting to descend on derivatives books. And once this has happened - people get status, etc. - it's impossible to get it back into the bottle."
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"I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem."
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"I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things."
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"There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument."
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"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."
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"This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!"
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"Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew."
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"A fool and his money get a lot of publicity."
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"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
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"You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong."
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"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
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"It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy."
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"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
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"Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana."
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"To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it."
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"I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame."
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"Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me."
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"Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently."
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