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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By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.
Confucius
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One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy
William Gibson
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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
Warren Christopher
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
Evan Esar