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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: courage, inspirational, strength
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: humor, politics, stupidity
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: family, readers, reading
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: ignorance, regret, stupidity, victory
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
    tags: bias, bickering, disagreement, falacy, fool, information, intelligence, politics, religion, science, stupidity, wisdom
    328 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: be-yourself, being-yourself, clever, comedic, differences, everyone, funny, funny-but-true, humor, ignorance, jokes, laughter, mockery, opinions, personality, personality-types, sense-of-humor, similarities, stupidity, traits, types, witty
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek
    tags: boring, humanity, stupidity
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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
    tags: intelligence, mankind, stupidity
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    Joseph Joubert
    “Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”
    ― Joseph Joubert
    tags: opinions, stubbornness, stupidity
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    Derek Landy
    “I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.”
    ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
    tags: brick-wall, dumb-people, humor, humorous, insult, stupidity, vampire, vampire-boyfriend
    230 likes

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    Lynsay Sands
    “Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.”
    ― Lynsay Sands, Love Is Blind
    tags: intelligent, stupid, stupidity
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    Ricky Gervais
    “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.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: stupidity
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    Alex Shakar
    “She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”
    ― Alex Shakar, Luminarium
    tags: deep-thoughts, happiness, shallowness, stupidity
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    Jen Campbell
    “CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook.

    BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?”
    ― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
    tags: cookbooks, humour, stupidity
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    Jean Plaidy
    “How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”
    ― Jean Plaidy, The Courts of Love
    tags: love, stupidity
    74 likes



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