"Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion."
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"There is no dunce like a mature dunce."
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"Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it."
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"Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly."
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"Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good."
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"I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not."
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"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
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"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
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"How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching."
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"Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity."
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"The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him."
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"But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly."
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"My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them."
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"Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered."
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"The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls."
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"Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of."
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"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation."
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"Stubbornness and stupidity are twins."
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"Stupidity is the only natural capital offense."
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"There's no sin but stupidity."
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