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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Frank Zappa
    “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
    ― Frank Zappa
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    “[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
    ― Stephen W. Hawking
    tags: humor, science, stupidity
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    Carrie Vaughn
    “I'm a werewolf trapped in a human body."
    "Well, yeah, that's kind of the definition."
    "No, really. I'm trapped."
    "Oh? When was the last time you shape-shifted?"
    "That's just it - I've never shape-shifted."
    "So you're not really a werewolf."
    "Not yet. But I was meant to be one, I just know it. How do I get a werewolf to attack me?"
    Stand in the middle of a forest under a full moon with a raw steak tied to your face, holding a sign that says, 'Eat me; I'm stupid'?”
    ― Carrie Vaughn, Kitty and the Midnight Hour
    tags: humor, stupidity, werewolves
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  • #7
    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
    ― Robert J. Hanlon
    tags: evil, malice, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, misattributed-to-einstein, stupidity
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Irony is wasted on the stupid”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: irony, stupid, stupidity
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Harlan Ellison
    “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
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    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
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    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    “Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

    (Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.)”
    ― Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville
    tags: singing, stupidity
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    Jonathan Swift
    “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
    ― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
    tags: dunces, genius, stupidity
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  • #14
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humor, perspective, science
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    Douglas Adams
    “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor, science
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    Romain Rolland
    “Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
    ― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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  • #19
    “When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end you end up polished and they end up useless.”
    ― Andy Biersack
    tags: hope, hurt, inspirational, life, metaphor, motivational, philosophy, revenge, wisdom
    104 likes



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