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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We kill time; time buries us.
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We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
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The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
