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«Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment»
«It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years»
Author: John von Neumann
(Mathematician)
| Keywords:
computer technology, silly, statements, technology
«If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| Keywords:
silly
«If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
Balkan, Balkans, come out, damned, Europe, silly, The Balkans
«I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.»
Author: Sir David Low
(Cartoonist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
bluff, bluffer, game show, Game shows, horrible, hostile, monster, shown, silly
«I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.»
Author: Greta Garbo
(Actress)
| Keywords:
doing nothing, dressed-up, dressed, pictures, silly, tempting, temptress
«I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.»
«It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| About:
Miracles
| Keywords:
credit, miracle, mountebank, Number Two, silly
«It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal»
«In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.»
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