Stephen Fry Quotes
It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
Stephen Fry
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You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
Barry Manilow
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
Sam Kean
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
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The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.
Cyrano de Bergerac
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The reason propaganda works is that most people are too involved or too stupid to recognize it as propaganda. People claim to understand the bias and filter it out, but that's absurd. Of course they don't.
Ann Coulter
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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Alistair Cooke
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As when, upon a tranced summer-night,Those green-rob’d senators of mighty woods,Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,Save from one gradual solitary gustWhich comes upon the silence, and dies off,As if the ebbing air had but one wave.
John Keats
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
Plato
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Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
Allison Joseph
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It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
Stephen Fry
