“ I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. ”
- George Berkeley- Copy
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“ Let me say with total sincerity that I never said that, and it has been misquoted,... These are not my words, and I would go to the extent of saying I am not so silly and stupid to make comments of this sort. ”
- Pervez Musharraf- Copy
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“ If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them. ”
- G.K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. ”
- Anne Rice- Copy
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“ This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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