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“I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.”

Use Dream Political Party Mass Labor Foolish Clock Helpless Political Parties Spinning

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.”

Knows World Different Teach Effects Asking Foolish Statistician Decimals

Author:John Tukey

“The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.”

Self Subjects Foolish Supreme Distinction Self Will

Book:Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography

Source: Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography

“If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.”

Ifs Risk Special Foolish

Author:Ethan Hawke

“We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.”

Country Moral Virtue Progress Western Notion Foolish Moral Virtues

Author:Richard Flanagan

“We are foolish to expect to serve God without opposition: the more zealous we are, the more sure are we to be assailed... Glory be to God, we know the end of the war. The great dragon shall be cast out and for ever destroyed, while Jesus and they who are with him shall receive the crown. Let us sharpen our swords to-night, and pray the Holy Spirit to nerve our arms for the conflict. Never battle so important, never crown so glorious. Every man to his post, ye warriors of the cross, and may the Lord tread Satan under your feet shortly!”

“Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.”

Men Has Beens Interesting Wise Notes Foolish Imbecility Foolish Man

Author:H. L. Mencken

“If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead of the care of persons, is foolish.”

Ifs Giving Persons Care Foolish Fulfillment Intimate Allowing Consumed Intimate Relationships

Author:Tony Campolo

“Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left, and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.”

Thinking Evil Left Sells Selfish Foolish Disagree Dope Insensitive

Author:J.R. Miller

“The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it.”

People Thinking Want Today Capable Function Constitution Foolish Compulsion

Author:Leonard Read

“The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.”

Men Choices Next Results Exercise Consequence Foolish Next Time Unwise

Author:Edmund A. Opitz

“Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.”

Hands Suicide Foolish Flattery

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.”

Ideas Policy Series Foolish Makers Homelessness Policy Makers

Book:Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.”

Ifs Certain One Thing Needed Come Up Foolish Tales Naked Fairy Internals Justify Fairy Tale Staff Ceo Projection Emperor Acquisition Stance Advisors

Author:Warren Buffett

“Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to allow for the self-serving bias of everybody else because most people are not going to remove it all that successfully, the human condition being what it is. If you don't allow for self-serving bias in your conduct, again you're a fool.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.”

Way Life Is Organization Complexes Foolish One Way Rough Complex Systems

Author:Charlie Munger

“'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are valued partly like bonds, based on roughly rational projections of use value in producing future cash. But they are also valued partly like Rembrandt paintings, purchased mostly because their prices have gone up, so far.”

Facts Use Values Common Gone Painting Foolish Rational Excess Cash Unfortunate Projection

Author:Charlie Munger

“The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.”

“If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.”

Ifs Pain Causes Foolish No Pain

Author:Epicurus

“Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.”

People Crime Accounts Greed Stupidity Foolish

Author:Louise Penny

“There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.”

Self Christian Foolish Doctrine Not Interested

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.”

House Jesus Rocks Foolish Sand

Author:Kevin DeYoung

“God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.”

“Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.”

Mean Done Facts Life Is Certain Realizing Understood Stupidity Foolish Commit Splendid

Book:The late Mattia Pascal

Source: The late Mattia Pascal

“The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.”

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Author:A. B. Simpson

“Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.”

People Ifs Should Littles I Can Can Do Prove Constitution Harm Foolish Administration Wicked Thank God

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.”

Men Mind Sometimes Hard Sick Train Foolish Foolish Man

Author:Hicham El Guerrouj

“Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.”

Ifs Government Known Wise Crime Despair Opposites Complaining Foolish Complaints Peril Messengers Grievance Offenders Petitions

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Being attractive for a few hours some evening is hardly worth being that unattractive all day (in hot rollers). Being yourself and being natural with a man is wonderful, but being downright unattractive with him is foolish.”

Men Hours Natural Wonderful Hot Foolish Evening Attractive Being Yourself Unattractive Being Natural

Book:Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

“Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.”

Reason Desire Weak Foolish Flight Mortals

Author:Dante Alighieri

“The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.”

Suffering Fool Ears Endure Strikes Foolish Hardest Hardest Thing Applause Booing

Author:Carl Maria von Weber

“The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.”

Wish Foolish Proportion Wiser Wiser You

Book:Exotics and Retrospectives

Source: Exotics and Retrospectives

“If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market.”

Ifs Ends Seems Bears Bottom Foolish Buying Equity

Author:Joseph Granville

“From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.”

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Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

“It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.”

People Reason Hate Individual Bases Foolish Hate People

Author:Dennis Miller

“Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength”

Men Looks Matter Beautiful Ugly Foolish Silly Charm Smoking Portions Charming

Book:The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929

Source: The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929

“Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.”

Said Whole Evil Speech Foolish Carrie Free Speech Lumps Venomous

Book:If I lived my life again

Source: If I lived my life again

“I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.”

People Enough Lying Realizing Clear Cameras Foolish Liars Doubtful Slippery Never Lie

Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.”

Way Force Voice Interest Community Differences Issues Style Approach Foolish Tone Productive Embarrassed Tactics

Author:Nigel Lawson

“Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.”

Said Sometimes Wish Realizing Foolish Mime

Author:Bob Saget

“I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!”

Thinking Want Jobs Industry Entertainment Foolish Bored Ongoing Entertainment Industry

Author:Melissa Rivers

“Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur'anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”

Men Mean Doe War Soul Values Fighting Claims Islam Foolish Spit Psalms Unbelievers Waging War Hadith

Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.”

Should I Can Life Is Fool Foolish

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.”

Men Heart Left Wise Foolish Foolish Man Foolish Heart

Author:Solomon

“The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (pursued oil as their priority before ministry). At the dark midnight hour of history, the Spirit will raise up forerunners who cry out that Jesus is coming as a Bridegroom God and that we must go out to meet Him (make the necessary effort to encounter Him). They all slept which speaks of living in context to the natural processes of life.”

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Author:Mike Bickle

“It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.”

“It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.”

Names One Thing Arguing Foolish

Author:Coleman Barks

“Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.”

Thinking Years Littles Has Beens Middle Couple East Foolish Bombs Middle East Turmoil Decoration

Author:Benjamin Carson

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