Jerry Lewis  - Quotes

 I've had great success being a total idiot.  

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Charles Stross  - Quotes

 Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. 

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George W. Bush  - Quotes

 It will take time to restore chaos 

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William Blake  - Quotes

 To generalize is to be an idiot. 

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Jenny Valentine  - Quotes

 Everything is going to be fine. 

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Orson Scott Card  - Quotes

 My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots.



But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.
 

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Fyodor Dostoevsky  - Quotes

 The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all the principal characters. But mostly the 'portrait of a truly beautiful person' that dostoevsky supposedly set out to write in that book. And I remember how Myshkin seemed so simple when I began the book, but by the end, I realized how I didn't understand him at all. the things he did. Maybe when I read it again it will be different. But the plot of these dostoevsky books can hold such twists and turns for the first-time reader-- I guess that's b/c he was writing most of these books as serials that had to have cliffhangers and such.

But I make marks in my books, mostly at parts where I see the author's philosophical points standing in the most stark relief. My copy of Moby Dick is positively full of these marks. The Idiot, I find has a few...

Part 3, Section 5. The sickly Ippolit is reading from his 'Explanation' or whatever its called. He says his convictions are not tied to him being condemned to death. It's important for him to describe, of happiness:
 

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Elizabeth Gilbert  - Quotes

 Indee, when i came to Italy, i expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying 

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William P. Young  - Quotes

 Did I hear God call me an idiot?  

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Bill Watterson  - Quotes

 People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. 

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