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    One moment people should learn that they must find their answers not to ask but to find. In real life you can't always ask, if you are ask you show how much stupid are you really!

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    One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.

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    One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

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    One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the US population does not see why it is a problem, since Christ is returning in a few decades. About the same percentage believe that the world was created a few thousand years ago. If science conflicts with the Bible, so much the worse for science. It would be hard to find an analogue in other societies.

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    Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

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    On Intelligence: Intelligence will not make you rich unless your intelligence is about getting rich. Corollary: Intelligence will lead one to to appreciate things that cost money over things that make money. Corollary: Being a genius is antithetical to being successful unless you're a genius at being successful. Corollary: Being intelligent does not make you rich but it can keep you from being poor. Corollary: Intelligence leads to interests, mostly not gainful. Corollary: Intelligence is like molasses, with effort, it goes where you put it. Rubbers are best for those who refuse to use them. Corollary: Intelligence adds but stupidity multiplies. Corollary: Reverse evolution is the new norm. Only luck can save one from one's own stupidity. Only idiots regard a second chance the same as the first. The higher the IQ, the greater the chance of self-deception. Still waters are often shallow puddles.

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    [On Dr. Strangelove]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay. [...] What could be more absurd than the very idea of two mega powers willing to wipe out all human life because of an accident, spiced up by political differences that will seem as meaningless to people a hundred years from now as the theological conflicts of the Middle Ages appear to us today?

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    Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots.

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    [P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.

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    People are intelligent; it is their ideas that are stupid.

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    Pensate che gli antichi romani fossero intelligenti? Guardate quanto sono cretini i loro numeri. Riguardo al declino e alla caduta della civiltà romana c'è una teoria secondo cui si trattò di una conseguenza delle loro tubature in piombo. L'avvelenamento da piombo rende la gente pigra e ottusa. Qual'è la vostra scusa?

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    People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

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    On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two even begin with the same three letters.

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    People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

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    People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not evolved much.

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    People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.

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    Plerumque stulti, risum dum captant levem, gravi destringunt alios contumelia. (Sono soprattutto gli sciocchi che, cercando di suscitare il riso, offendono gravemente gli altri.)

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    Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.

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    ...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

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    Progresele culturale, care sunt evidente şi se extind la categorii sociale în mod tradiţional excluse, pot continua. Dar ăn acelaşi timp există mai multă prostie. Faptul că ţăranii de odinioară tăceau nu însemna că erau proşti. Un om cu şcoală nu e neapărat inteligent. Nici vorbă. Azi însă, toţi cei care tăceau vor să âşi facă auzit glasul, iar în unele cazuri, inevitabil, îşi fac auzită doar prostia. Să spunem deci că altădată prostia rămânea ascunsă, necunoscută, pe când în zilele noastre ea urală pe străzi.

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    Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.

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    (Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.

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    On Stupidity - There is no such thing as a foolproof plan. If there are fools about, no plan is proof against them.

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    People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

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    Risking your own life in order to entertain others is the height of stupidity.

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    Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

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    Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.

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    Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

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    She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental souls

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    Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing all and regretting. It was a blessing that it ended. Though money wasn't sufficient then, mostly they were rich with your love, now suffering being broke in both.

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    Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.

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    Significance of growing up is you are able to pick up the losers you know and kick them off more effortlessly

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    Similar reasoning has promoted educational policies which seek to create more equal outcomes for "special education" students with mental, physical, or psychological handicaps—again with little or no regard for the financial costs of this to the taxpayers or the educational costs to other children in whose classrooms they are to be "mainstreamed," often with little regard to the disruptive effects of their special needs. These financial costs can be several times what it costs to educate the average student, while the educational results for a severely retarded student may be imperceptible. The educational cost can also include a substantial part of a teacher's time being devoted to one or a few students, to the neglect of the majority.

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    Si potrebbe anche dire che una delle tragedie dell'esistenza umana è il fatto che la violenza è una forma di stupidità alla quale è molto difficile replicare con una risposta intelligente.

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    Smartass Disciple: Does stupidity a sin? Master of Stupidity: No stupidity, no sin.

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    Socrates's daimon (the one who spoke first within him ) whispered to him: no. My daimon, on the contrary, is my stupidity: like the Nietzschean ass, I say yes to everything, in the field of my love.

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    So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It's basically a jail for mankind stupidy!

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    So I am perfectly free to buy any goods that are legally sold throughout Europe, provided that they can be delivered, even though they are not legal in Italy, even because in Italy only stupidity is legal.

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    Solemnity and stupidity are the same thing.

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    People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish

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    Some days I don't know what is greater. My wisdom, or my stupidity.

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    Some people are Freethinkers from sheer stupidity. My Uncle Sosthenes was one of these. Some people are often religious for the same reason.

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    Some People are Tired of Being Stupid But they Cant Stop Being Stupid Because They are Already Stupid.

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    Some people in my position would now have felt rather crestfallen, and would have begun to think that they had made a very foolish mistake. Not the faintest misgiving of any kind troubled me. I did not feel in the slightest degree depreciated in my own estimation. And even now, after a lapse of three hours, my mind remains, I am happy to say, in the same calm and hopeful condition.

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    Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

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    Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

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    Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.

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    Sometimes people really don’t have our best interests in mind.

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    Sometimes sexy women like to act stupid because it helps them get exactly what they want. Theresa Boudreaux was one of those types: a bodacious waffle-house waitress with a devilish streak. Unfortunately for a certain high-ranking elected leader, she had the wits to go to RadioShack and buy herself a nine-dollar phone-recording device. She then used it to tape her dirty phone calls with US Congressman Huey Hartley, a powerful, sanctimonious, married-for-thirty-years politician from the solidly red state of Mississippi.

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    Sometimes, to fix something, you need to completely ruin something else