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  1. Robert A. Heinlein _ The Green Hills of Earth

    You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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  2. David Graeber _ The Utopia of Rules: On

    Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing stupidity--of managing relationships that are already characterized by extremely unequal structures of imagination, which exist because of the existence of structural violence.
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  3. George Bernard Shaw _ The Irrational Knot

    {Chess} is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. "
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  4. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The Wisdom of Life

    When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge{1} and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,-is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?
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  5. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid."
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  6. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.
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  7. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the

    Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.
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  8. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect."
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  9. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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  10. Eoin Colfer _ The Eternity Code

    That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.
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  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Crime and Punishment

    You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid-and I know they are-yet I won't be wiser?
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  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
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