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Janeane Garofolo: “We can no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism. We can no longer tolerate liberal-bashing and we can no longer tolerate the politics of the dumb and the mean.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: “To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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Paul Valery: “Love is being stupid together.
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Jesse Ventura: “You can't legislate stupidity.
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Albert Camus: “When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid, it can't last long.' But though a war may be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting.
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Bertrand Russell: “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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John Dewey: “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.
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Muslih-ud-Din Saadi: “A stupid person should keep silent. But if he knew this, he would not be a stupid person.
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Plato: “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Marc Estrin: “Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
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Aldous Huxley: “At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
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Will Rogers: “If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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Mark Twain: “First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.
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P. J. O'Rourke: “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.
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Douglas Adams: “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Friedrich von Schiller: “With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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Bertrand Russell: “Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
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Tom DeLay: “Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.”  more
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Isaac Asimov: “[W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
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Albert Einstein: “Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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Abraham Lincoln: “’Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”  more
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Aldous Huxley: “At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
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Edwin Land: “Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Albert Einstein: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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John Stuart Mill: “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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Elbert Hubbard: “Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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Bill Cosby: “A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
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Malcolm Forbes: “The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
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Sam Levenson: “It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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