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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Patience, Stupid, Ignorance

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Humour, Admire

  'L'Art poètique' canto 1, l. 232

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• The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Change, Believe

  "Enlightened Activism" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2015.

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• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Mothers Day, Mom, Women

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• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Stupid, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau, Richard Dillman (1987). “Thoreau's comments on the art of writing”

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• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

  Joey Skaggs

  Thinking, Fool

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• The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Fool, Sometimes

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

  Leo Burnett

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• whoopdie-friggin-doo, fooled you!

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.200, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Wise, Remember

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• A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Hands, Fool

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• Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Be Good, Gods Will

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.155, Random House

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• I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Honesty

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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• Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

  Kenneth Lay

  Thinking, Fool

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• I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

  Stephen Fry

  May, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Some British actors are overrated by Hollywood, claims Fry" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2007.

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• My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh

  Dominic Monaghan

  Mom, Dad, Laughing

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fools Day

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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• Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  George W. Bush's remarks on teaching American history and civic education at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2002.

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• I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

  Ricky Jay

  Feelings, Fool, Fool Me

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Issues, Environmental, Alarms

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ The Clean Room". Documentary, 2014.

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• Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

  Ray Comfort

  Important, Public Opinion, Use

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