"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
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"I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are."
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"I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?"
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"I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire."
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"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it."
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"A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either."
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"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever."
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"Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it"
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"A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid."
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"As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is."
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"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."
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"Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly, completely wrong."
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"he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something"
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"On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion."
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"Well, that was a bit stupid of you,” said Ginny angrily, “seeing as you don’t know anyone but me who’s been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels.” Harry remained quite still as the impact of these words hit him. Then he turned on the spot to face her. “I forgot,” he said. “Lucky you,” said Ginny coolly. “I’m sorry,” Harry said, and he meant it."
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"The future will soon be a thing of the past."
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"Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?"
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"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
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"Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something."
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"Two years from now, spam will be solved."
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