"Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader."
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"Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]"
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"...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed."
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"There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public."
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"Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face"."
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"Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine."
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"The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury."
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"I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity."
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"Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?"
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"Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity."
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"He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir."
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"Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity."
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"BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book."
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"stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves"
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"The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie."
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"Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity."
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"In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees."
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"We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste."
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"Simplicity, very rare in our age."
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"There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity."
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