Marcel Proust Quotes
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There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
Adam Mansbach -
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 -
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
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 -
I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.
Ted Cruz -
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell -
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Victor Hugo -
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
Leonard Woolf -
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
Amy Lowell
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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
Oscar Wilde -
Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
Oscar Wilde -
Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
Bruce Sterling -
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
Heraclitus -
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe.
Albert Einstein -
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
Richard Feynman -
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
William J. Brennan, Jr. -
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.
Terence McKenna -
...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.
Marcel Proust