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Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!


Oliver Gaspirtz

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I think the chances are that people are more dumb than smart and they forget quickly.
DOUG RICHARD Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.
CHRIS ROCK People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.
LEILA JOSEFOWICZ Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE The new strategic plan has a fatal flaw and that is the cost - $500 million.
JOSEPH CLARK I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb pe...
KEANU REEVES We wanted to make these people feel welcome. These people are traumatized, and New York's going to b...
BOB MCHUGH I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen ...
KEANU REEVES I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
KEANU REEVES The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as bei...
KURT VONNEGUT We've been here till after dark on Christmas Eve more than once. We've been here till after dark on ...
DAN BARRETT People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.
GILLIAN FLYNN Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, though...
DOUGLAS ADAMS When we talk about an Internet of things, it's not just putting RFID tags on some dumb thing so we s...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the wh...
LOUISE BROOKS New Zealand is a beautiful country. But there are more sheep and cows than people.
ALLAN TIBBY People who visit there are made to feel welcome.
JOE SEROOGY There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the...
RICHARD LEDERER Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are...
JAY LENO Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just...
HOWARD SIMONS We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smar...
BOOTSY COLLINS Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
PEOPLE OF CHRIST The determination that is his biggest strength . . . is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthin...
LIN PARDEY I think because of Oliver, people are aware what is out there in this sewage-tainted water.
FRIEDERIKE BOSZKO I really made few incredible subscribers, which I want to put as "I'm glad, that I have done it". It...
DEYTH BANGER There are more fools in the world than there are people.
HEINRICH HEINE The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being li...
PATRICK LENCIONI There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would sti...
ZACK GREINKE I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You should be smart enough to understand how dumb you are!
PRIYANKA CHAUHAN Am i so smart, or are you so dumb?
LOUIS VAN GAAL There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
SAMORA MACHEL Only dumb people are happy.
COURTNEY LOVE Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.
Percy: the ...
RICK RIORDAN I really made few uncrediable subscribes, which I want to put as "I'm glad, that I have done it". It...
DEYTH BANGER The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for ...
ARTIE LANGE There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's ju...
MICHAEL NESMITH Word's out that it's good out there. People are smart, and I respect the local mind-set ... They wan...
DICK JACKSON Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
CHARLES BROWER It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because ...
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt ...
HYMAN GEORGE RICKOVER New Years Resolutions are made by people more impressed with the date than the goal~
BJ MORIN Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.
JOSEPH MCCABE Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms
JOSEPH MCCABE I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as...
DINAH KATT Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say ...
ANDY ROONEY Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to ol...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
MUHAMMAD ALI There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY ... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit r...
ANNE PERRY There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.
ADAM CAROLLA Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
SOLOMON SHORT I heard you could do that—buy books by the yard, turn them into furniture. People are dumb. I’ll...
GILLIAN FLYNN Dumb people make dumb friends.
AHMAD TALAL ASIF People are starting to panic. These are smart, intelligent people.
BRUCE RASHBAUM The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenge...
LILLIE LANGTRY But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING ...
JOHN GREEN All ages, genders and ethnicities are welcome. If you love the theater, join us.
DORA MURRAY Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. Yo...
GARY COHN Many overseas tourists discover New Zealand on their way to Australia and wish they had budgeted mor...
JANE KING Many overseas tourists discover New Zealand on their way to Australia and wish they had budgeted mor...
JANE KING People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
JAMES RANDI Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.
BRUCE PALTROW I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMAN It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal...
AIDAN GILLEN Smart people are not really smart they are just smarter!
HAYDAR ADNAN JAWAD There are more police here than people. They should go catch the criminals and set the people free.
JESSE JACKSON You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG People!" she screamed. "There are people here! New people!
DEREK LANDY I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem ...
PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO There are as many kinds of kisses as there are people on earth, as there are permutations and combin...
DIANE DI PRIMA There is nothing more disgraceful than a vain man."

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a...
DEVIN MADSON Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It'...
NIKLAS ZENNSTROM There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
LYTTON STRACHEY You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dum...
ERICA JONG Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit...
FRANCIS BACON We get spectators a lot. Most of the time when people come out they sit in the shelters out there. A...
DAN FITZGERALD Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to ...
ANDY ROONEY His fatal flaw is that he hasn't been willing to destroy the old machine to build the new Chicago. T...
DICK SIMPSON People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.
ROBYN DONALD The Academies welcome kids and people of all ages to come and visit Einstein. Kids in particular enj...
BILL KEARNEY There are tens of millions of people living alone now. There are more people living on their own tha...
BARBARA FELDON Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness
ANDRE GIDE Was it possible there was some fatal flaw in their matching, that they were ultimately, impossibly d...
GALT NIEDERHOFFER The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just start...
JOHN UPDIKE There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
TOM ROBBINS People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than...
CHARLIE MUNGER There are generally more offenders living in communities than most people realize.
KATIE FORD Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.
BRUCE PALTROW No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of inter...
JUDITH BROCKLEHURST There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre...
DAN LEVITAN It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
MARILYN MONROE These young people are smart,
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