Nevil Shute Quotes
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
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There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
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Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
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Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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...I saw it clearly. The tragedy of our time is to have lost the ability to feel loss, the inability of power to rise to its responsibility for human decency....I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace'.
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A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
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[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
