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• If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Stupid, Pay, Psychiatrist

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• I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.

  R. K. Milholland

  Hard Times, Thinking, Wikipedia

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• It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Style, Stuff

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• An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Marriage, Girl

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• The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Unhappy

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Will customers keep supporting the enormous overhead required to sustain ineffectual, unproductive stock picking across an array of thousands of individual funds devoted to every investing 'style' and economic sector or regional subgroup that some marketing idiot can dream up? Not likely. A brutal shakeout is coming and one of its revelations will be that stock picking is a grossly overrated piece of the puzzle, that cost control is what distinguishes a competitive firm from an uncompetitive one.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Dream, Style, Marketing

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• Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

  Stephen Marche

  Fun, Smart, Stupid

  "How Genre Fiction Became More Important Than Literary Fiction" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. March 11, 2015.

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• All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my reflections fail to solve the question: for I myself do not know who the self is, And how can others know who I am?

  Hanshan

  Reflection, Self, Who I Am

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• When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher.

  Rory Sutherland

  Motivation, Inspiration, Philosopher

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• If you think Democrats are going to take away your Bible, you're an idiot. If you think they are going to take away your gun, you're an armed idiot. If you think they're going to take away your gun and give it to a Mexican to kill your God, you're Bill O'Reilly.

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Thinking, Giving

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", April 20, 2008.

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• Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Ideas, Valuable

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• Some people have different ways than yours of having fun. You can't judge 'em, you can't dismiss 'em, and you can't say, 'what an idiot, what a food.' You just have to accept their truth of
  their harmony with what they wanna do in their heart. As long as it's not hurting anyone.

  Gary Busey

  Hurt, Fun, Heart

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• My sister just had a baby, a little newborn. The kid is adorable, so cute. She wouldn't let me hold him, she refuses. She says, 'No way, Anthony, I'm afraid you're gonna drop him.' I'm 32 years old. Like I'm some kind of idiot. Like I don't have a million other ways to hurt that baby.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Cute, Baby

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• Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

  Al Jourgensen

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Fart

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• I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.

  Tim Allen

  Girl, Dad, Parent

  "Tim Allen Talks LAST MAN STANDING, Classic Sitcoms, Stand-Up, and the Future of the TOY STORY Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 3, 2012.

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• How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? That must have been some weird marketing meeting over in France. Some French guy's sitting there, like, "How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Thinking, Water

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• I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

  Rose McGowan

  Stupid, Pity, Deals

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I was so tired, wasn't having fun any more, and wasn't sure if I wanted to do this any longer. So I turned my phone off and sorted my head out. It was the opposite of a breakdown really, it was a break-up - I got rid of all the idiots, realised my job was supposed to be fun, and got on with my life.

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Fun, Tired

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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• Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!

  Bjork

  Believe, Technology, Use

  "Bjork: 15 Years". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. August 15, 2011.

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• I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.

  Christoph Waltz

  Car, Truck, Cement

  Source: collider.com

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• Day 1 -- Still tired from the move. Day 2 -- Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Moving, Tired, Talk To Me

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• It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

  John Simon

  Wonderful, Hated

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• Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

  Chris Lowe

  Men, Invention, Worst

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• No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Humor, Matter

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Differences, People

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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