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“To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist..........if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves.”

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Author:Seth Lloyd

“The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure.”

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Author:Rafael Correa

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”