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  • #1
    Bill Watterson
    “People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
    tags: idiots, life-humor
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
    tags: afraid, bravery, common-sense, fear, idiots, scared
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    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    “Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”
    ― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    tags: fools, haters, idiots, rumors
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  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: idiots
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    Frantz Fanon
    “...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
    tags: beauty, happiness, idiots, intelligence, life
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  • #8
    Tite Kubo
    “They say even death can't cure an idiot.
    -Ririn”
    ― Tite Kubo
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    Orson Scott Card
    “My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots.

    But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile
    tags: idiots
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  • #10
    H.L. Mencken
    “The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
    tags: government, ideas, idiots, laws
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  • #11
    Vera Nazarian
    “To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: exception, exceptions, fool, fools, idiot, idiots, rule, rules
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  • #12
    Charles Stross
    “Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.”
    ― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
    tags: bogons, computers, hacker-folklore, humour, idiots, it
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  • #13
    Suzanne Collins
    “Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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  • #14
    “If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.”
    ― Laura Davenport
    tags: humor, idiots, sky
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  • #15
    Cynthia Hand
    “I didn't figure things out, either, you know. So if you'e an idiot, I guess that makes two of us."

    He seems relieved to hear me say that. I guess idiots love company.”
    ― Cynthia Hand, Hallowed
    tags: christian-prescott, clara, idiots, misery-loves-company
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  • #16
    Andy Weir
    “It’s a simple idiot-proofing scheme that’s very effective. But no idiot-proofing can overcome a determined idiot.”
    ― Andy Weir, Artemis
    tags: idiotproofing, idiots
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  • #17
    “They're sensational!”
    ― Harry Styles
    tags: all-of-them, idiots
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  • #18
    Ron Burns
    “You can't make anything idiot proof because idiots are so ingenious.”
    ― Ron Burns
    tags: idiots
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  • #19
    “I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”
    ― Leo Szilard
    tags: democracy, equality, fairness, genius, idiots, principles, reason, scientist, voting
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  • #20
    Jennifer Estep
    “Y’all might as well come on out,” I said. “I know you’re there. I can smell you.”
    “Smell me? But I just took a shower this morning!” an indignant voice drifted out of the shadows.
    There was a loud sound, like someone was getting smacked upside the head. Then another voice let out a low mutter.
    “Shut up, idiot.”
    ― Jennifer Estep, By a Thread
    tags: assassin, billy, bobby, funny, gin-blanco, humor, idiots, smell
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  • #21
    “I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.”
    ― Snooki
    tags: death, food, idiots, lobster
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    Laurann Dohner
    “Love is so complicated. I’m glad I don’t suffer from it and hope I never do. It’s amazing how smart, strong people turn into frail, frightened idiots once their hearts are involved.”
    ― Laurann Dohner, Obsidian
    tags: idiots, love
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  • #23
    Derek Landy
    “Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby.
    "Can it do any tricks yet?"
    "I'm still working on it. Want to hold her?"
    "God, no," Fletcher said laughing. "I'd drop it."
    "It's not an it, it's my baby sister. Go on, hold her. You won't make a mess of it, i swear. Only an idiot could drop a baby."
    "You always say I am an idiot."
    "But you're a special kind of idiot. Here."
    She passed Alice into his arms, and he stood there, rigid, a look of intense concentration on his face.”
    ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
    tags: babies, derek-landy, idiots, skulduggery-pleasant
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  • #24
    “If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.”
    ― James McGregor
    tags: idiots, people, philosophical
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    Jack Black
    “I'm fairly certain YOLO is just Carpe Diemm for stupid people.”
    ― Jack Black
    tags: idiots, yolo
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  • #26
    Raheel Farooq
    “Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.”
    ― Raheel Farooq
    tags: character, heaven, hell, idiots, men, peace, peace-on-earth, stupidity, stupidity-of-man, wisdom, wise-words, world, world-peace
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  • #27
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour
    tags: army, idiots, world-domination
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    William Hazlitt
    “The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”
    ― William Hazlitt
    tags: idiots, world, wrong
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  • #29
    Chris Wooding
    “On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.”
    ― Chris Wooding, The Iron Jackal
    tags: idiots, plans
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