"Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something."
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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
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"A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist."
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"While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documenting the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses."
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"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
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"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe."
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
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"There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four."
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"Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be."
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"The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it."
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"Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward."
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"Life is a zero sum game."
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"It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid."
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"Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human."
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"If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor."
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"He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others."
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"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them."
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"n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed."
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"which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?"
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"People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base."
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