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• Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

  Bill Mollison

  Iron, Differences, Use

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• Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

  Alexander Waugh

  Form, Seriousness

  Alexander Waugh (2008). “Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family”, p.453, Anchor

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• Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

  Hyman Rickover

  Stupid, Optimism

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

  George Santayana

  Men, Joy, Benefits

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.59, 谷月社

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• Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Math, Names

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• Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

  G. H. Hardy

  Math, Names, People

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

  Tibor Fischer

  Amount

  Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

  Yahoo Serious

  Art, Stupid, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

  R. K. Milholland

  Funny, Life, Love Is

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• In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

  George Harrison

  People, World, Ends

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• I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

  Ralph Hodgson

  Sweet, Eye, People

  Ralph Hodgson (2004). “The Last Blackbird and Other Poems by Ralph Hodgson”

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• Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

  Pentti Linkola

  Government, People, Growth

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• It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

  George Lindsey

  Paper, Toilets, Saws

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• Look out! Behind you!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Looks, Behind You, Behinds

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• If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal.

  Jimmy Hill

  Winning, Goal, England

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• One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  People, Usual, Betrayed

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• I'm only going one way.

  Babe Ruth

  Way, One Way

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• If we had some eggs we could have eggs and ham, if we had some ham.

  Groucho Marx

  Eggs, Ham, Ifs

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• Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

  Gary Larson

  Oil, Water, Hot

  Gary Larson, Steve (FRW) Martin (2003). “The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.

  Groucho Marx

  Children, Parent, Would Be

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• If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Water, Religion

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• I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Believe, Favors

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.487, Best Books on

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• That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

  Jimmy Hill

  Wise, Men, Three

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• On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

  Sam Ewing

  Flight, Boat, Used

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• Too many piglets not enough tits.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Piglet, Enough

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