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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
    tags: stupidity
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    Voltaire
    “The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: appearance, repetition, stupidity, wisdom
    20 likes

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    Dejan Stojanovic
    “When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.”
    ― Dejan Stojanovic
    tags: dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, stupidity, thoughts, tv, wisdom
    16 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
    18882 likes

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    Sarah J. Maas
    “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: reading, survival
    5364 likes

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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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  • #8
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
    tags: books, internet, irony, sam-roth
    158 likes

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  • #11
    Henry Miller
    “One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.”
    ― Henry Miller, Sextet: Six essays
    tags: evil, stupidity
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: sarcasm, stupidity
    51 likes

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    Santosh Kalwar
    “Come on, gentleman; let us drink to our stupidity.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
    tags: drink, gentleman, stupidity
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  • #14
    Will Rogers
    “If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: stupidity
    95 likes

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    Petronius
    “Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?”
    ― Petronius, The Satyricon
    tags: ancient, humour, irony, latin, nonsense, satyre, stupidity, text, the-satyricon, trimalchio
    165 likes

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    Nevil Shute
    “You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”
    ― Nevil Shute, Round the Bend
    tags: stupidity
    119 likes

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    Orson Scott Card
    “And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
    tags: bean, stupidity
    107 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Irony is wasted on the stupid”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: irony, stupid, stupidity
    585 likes

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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: humor, politics, stupidity
    1658 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4244 likes

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  • #21
    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
    3561 likes

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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
    3114 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women
    tags: politics, propaganda
    234 likes

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  • #24
    “The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.”
    ― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous
    tags: media, news, newspapers, propaganda
    74 likes

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  • #25
    Demosthenes
    “Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.”
    ― Demosthenes
    tags: media, propaganda, truth
    3 likes



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