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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

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• First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.

  Mark Twain

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• Then there’s politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

  P. J. O'Rourke

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• With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

  Friedrich Schiller

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• Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.

  Bertrand Russell

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• ‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. (attributed)

  Abraham Lincoln

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• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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• You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

  Scott Adams

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• The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

  John Steinbeck

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• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  Vartan Gregorian

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• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

  Elbert Hubbard

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• Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

  Victor Hugo

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• We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

  Paul Gauguin

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• Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

  Karl Kraus

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• We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly.

  Bill Maher

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Building, Cowards, Stupidity

• It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

  Jerome Cady

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• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

  Albert Camus

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• There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

  William Hazlitt

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• Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

  Karl Kraus

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• No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Topics in Intelligence

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