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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The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.
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What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.
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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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In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
