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.
Larry Kramer
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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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.
Walter Kirn
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
P. J. O'Rourke
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
Samuel E. Morison
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
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I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
Taylor Sheridan
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I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
Wayne Brady
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Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.
Safra A. Catz
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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!
Madeline Zima
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
Barry Diller
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It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo
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Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.
Rachel Cohn
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During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
Evan Esar