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Letter "I" » idiots
«Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them»
Author: Walter Kerr
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World
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advantage, clever, composed, idiots, indecent, The Other Half
«By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself»
«Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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Education
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crutch, crutches, idiots, wise to
«Dreams - Dreams are like rainbows. Only idiots chase them.»
«Cluelessness - There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.»
«Grace- [on the phone] Yes. This is Grace Adler of Grace Adler Designs. I was in there yesterday. I told you I would be back today. And now you're telling me you're all out? Do you know how much business I've given you over the years? How much money I've spent? You idiots never make enough chili. [Slams down the phone]»
Author: Will & Grace
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all out, Business Today, chili, designs, idiots, phone, slamming, slams
«Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!»
«ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.»
«Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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a hundred thousand, characters, distinction, eminence, equality, fathers, hundred thousand, idiots, income, inequalities, inequality, merit, mothers, ordinary people, spoiled
«Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars / White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.»
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