Evan Esar Quotes
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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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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
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I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
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Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.
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It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
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Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
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To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
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If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite.
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Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
