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"Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second."
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"It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork."
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"If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution."
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"There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action."
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"New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign."
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"Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world."
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"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
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"There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity."
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"And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect."
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"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in."
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"She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you."
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"The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness."
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"There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed."
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"There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers."
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"Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."
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"Stupidity talks, vanity acts."
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"Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel."
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"Rascality has limits; stupidity has not."
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"Those who realise their folly are not true fools."
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