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The Patient Ox (aka Hénock Gugsa)

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A personal blog with diverse topicality and multiple interests!


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Friday, November 15, 2013

Putting Up With Imbeciles - by TPO


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Putting Up With Imbeciles
by TPO
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"Listen to me, imbecile. If the Treasury is important, then human life is not. This is clear. All those who think like you ought to admit this reasoning and count their lives for nothing because they hold money for everything."
-Albert Camus
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“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
-Mark Twain
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"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."
-Alexander Dumas
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“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.”
- A Chinese proverb
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
-Albert Einstein
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"There is no sin except stupidity."

-Oscar Wilde
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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."

-Edgar Allan Poe
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"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."

-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."

-Albert Camus
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"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity."
-Michel de Montaigne


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