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“I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.”

Ifs Should Has Beens I Can Ends Age Turns Mistake Accepting Mankind Stupid Nervous Shells Hook Pastries Nervousness Stupid Mistake

Author:Anton Chekhov

“We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.”

People Men Truth Fighting Known Accepting Our Lives Stupid Great Men Accepting The Truth Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“Reporters aren't stupid. We were standing around talking about which of the 900 health-care proposals that nobody's going to accept is that day's hot news. They know how silly that is. But that's what they do.”

Knows Care Talking Accepting Know How Stupid News Standing Hot Silly Health Care Reporters Proposal

Author:Dave Barry

“How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?”

Inspirational Looks Guy Accepting Stupid Gold Shoes Medal Bronze Bronze Medal Gold Shoes

Author:Michael Johnson