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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I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...
Lee De Forest
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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
Paul D. Boyer
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Francis Bacon
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Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.
Sarah Silverman
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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
