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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I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity, Guantnamo Bay and all the rest of it. But the poems at the start of District and Circle Anahorish 1944, The Aerodromearent particularly aimed as criticism. On the contrary, there's a recognition of the big contribution to world order made in Europe during World War II.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.
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Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
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I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
