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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
    ― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
    tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity
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    Mercedes Lackey
    “If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
    (a Shin'a'in saying)”
    ― Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight
    tags: stupid, stupidity, trying
    370 likes

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    Marilyn Manson
    “I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
    ― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
    tags: marilyn-manson, people, stupidity
    298 likes

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    John Grisham
    “If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”
    ― John Grisham, The Testament
    tags: stupidity
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  • #7
    “Never underestimate human stupidity.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, The Fallen Legacies
    tags: human, i-am-number-four, lorien-legacy, stupidity
    125 likes

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  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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  • #9
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #10
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #11
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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  • #12
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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  • #13
    William Blake
    “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: english-poet, inspirational, knowledge, willpower
    846 likes

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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Information is not knowledge.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: information, knowledge
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #16
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114369 likes



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