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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet
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"I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion."

Art Moving Stupid
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's."

Men Stupid Clever
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely."

People Two Stupid
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Jane Austen Novelist
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"I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

Character Mistake Stupid
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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."

Desire Stupid Laughing
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be."

Nice Stupid Smart
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that."

Love Talking Stupid
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Barack Obama Politician
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"What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life."

Country Running Stupid
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Barack Obama Politician
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"We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy."

War Stupid Problem
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Patricia Marx Author, Comedian
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"But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn."

Stupid Land Coffee
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Peter Andre Singer, Television Personality
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"Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking."

Men Stupid Sunday
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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him."

Stupid Risk Boss
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