"In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows."
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"The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him."
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"Irony is wasted on the stupid"
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"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing"
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"Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel."
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"If you are always trying to do something great and different and fresh, lots of them are going to be shut down for lots of stupid or good reasons, but you have to keep on trying."
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"So far, this is the oldest I've been."
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"Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time."
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"I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization that has a handbook."
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"If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things"
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"Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up."
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"Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by."
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"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."
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"In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads."
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"Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity."
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"We need a leader, not a reader."
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"We're in the age of the selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people to perceive you. Think of when people are partying and having fun. They're like, "Hey, look at us!" You're obviously not having that much fun because otherwise you wouldn't be stopping to document it. It's stupid."
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"Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how."
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"England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'"
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"She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."
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