"When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid."
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"Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy and a giant of literature, and I think he wrote a great book that will be read for many years - you do have to wonder where all those Hobbits came from, since you can't imagine Hobbits having sex, can you? Well, sex is an important part of who we are. It drives us, it motivates us, it makes us do sometimes very noble things and it makes us do sometimes incredibly stupid things. Leave it out, and you've got an incomplete world."
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"Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget."
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"I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session."
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"This is unparalyzed in the state's history."
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"And now, will y'all stand and be recognized."
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"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
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"Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes."
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"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain."
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"A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's."
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"Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid."
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"How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?"
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"Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!"
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"There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit."
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"The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world."
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"I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with."
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"Stupid human voices always ruining everything."
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"Things go wrong for me, all the time, with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs."
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"He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you."
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"But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be."
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