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stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves


Albert Camus

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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
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HENRY ROLLINS We often learn as much if not more from stupidity as we do from genious.
IAN MACDONALD If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
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FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly o...
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DEAN JONES If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate...
FRANCOIS FENELON If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate...
FRANCOIS DE FENELON If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate...
FRANCOIS FTNELON Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW David's one of those guys who has a knack for getting a hit when we need it.
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MAUREEN BRADY To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our...
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PAUL THEROUX [So should the Falcons be seen as massive underdogs?] We don't see it that way, ... We feel we match...
ERIC BARBER If there's one cultural quality we have, it's that we always see ourselves as an underdog.
BILL GATES We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two,...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselve...
DONALD MILLER When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.
JACK HANNAH We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We ...
PETER ADDERTON However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of u...
ERIC HOFFER Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
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ALBERT CAMUS We should be getting rid of the trans fat as much as we can. But saturated fats have not changed. Th...
FERGUS CLYDESDALE We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not ...
CORNEL WEST Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.
DEB CALETTI No one can hope that men who have fought in silence for four years and are now fighting all day long...
ALBERT CAMUS The people are under arms tonight because they hope for justice for tomorrow, Some go about saying t...
ALBERT CAMUS Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, th...
ALBERT CAMUS We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live wit...
SENECA The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART Ah ! cher ami, que les hommes sont pauvres en invention. Ils croient toujours qu'on se suicide pour ...
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BRENDAN HANSEN If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Oh, the secret life of man and woman --dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were s...
ZELDA FITZGERALD We get so wrapped up in what we should do, what we think we can’t do because of our problems, what...
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OSCAR WILDE A wretched soul bruised with adversity,We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;But were we burdened with...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has...
LORETTA YOUNG It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and ...
ERIC HOFFER We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO We hope to get this wrapped up in a month or so.
DEAN JUNTUNEN We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given ...
JOCELYN SORIANO Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway...
ERIC HOFFER Friendship Never explain / your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway....
ERIC HOFFER We were getting so much snow it was basically like a snowball effect for opening up the rest of the ...
BRENT CURTAIN I see ourselves as one of the top teams in either division. We should be in the mix.
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PAUL MARICK We're getting a little better as far as not coughing the puck up as much. When we do, that's when we...
GREG PUHALSKI If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
ABIGAIL ADAMS If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
JOHN ADAMS If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?
JOHN ADAMS If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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ERIC ALTERMAN (Downey)'s exciting to watch, much like an Allen Iverson is. We've to make sure we don't watch him, ...
DAVE ODOM I told our girls I was happy with the way they fought back and took it to five games, but I thought ...
KRISTA MIKESCH We hung a slider and Albert doesn't miss sliders too much. He doesn't miss pitches up in the zone.
DUSTY BAKER We hung a slider and Albert doesn't miss sliders too much, ... He doesn't miss pitches up in the zon...
DUSTY BAKER Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it see...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
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ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS Historically, every year that companies were net buyers of shares, as far back as we have data, the ...
CHARLES BIDERMAN The Big Island, as with other market expansions, has always lagged the market. We began to see the B...
JOE TOY I made sure my tenure did not end until Hong Kong Disneyland opened and several other things were wr...
MICHAEL EISNER We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons....
PAUL JOSEPH GOEBBELS We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons....
JOSEPH PAUL GOEBBELS She has a knack to getting to the basket.
JILL DEVRIES If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would never wish a second look.
VIKRANT PARSAI As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU As if there were safety in stupidity alone
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we b...
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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ALBERT CAMUS Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
ALBERT CAMUS The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
ALBERT CAMUS I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
ALBERT CAMUS The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither t...
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ALBERT CAMUS In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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ALBERT CAMUS The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
ALBERT CAMUS Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
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ALBERT CAMUS I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew...
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ALBERT CAMUS How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
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ALBERT CAMUS To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the c...
ALBERT CAMUS When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
ALBERT CAMUS All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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ALBERT CAMUS To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to ...
ALBERT CAMUS We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
ALBERT CAMUS Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ALBERT CAMUS Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
ALBERT CAMUS Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
ALBERT CAMUS Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
ALBERT CAMUS The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the ot...
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ALBERT CAMUS There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
ALBERT CAMUS Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
ALBERT CAMUS To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
ALBERT CAMUS Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
ALBERT CAMUS Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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ALBERT CAMUS You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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ALBERT CAMUS The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the comm...
ALBERT CAMUS I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. ...
ALBERT CAMUS It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
ALBERT CAMUS A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
ALBERT CAMUS Integrity has no need of rules.
ALBERT CAMUS Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
ALBERT CAMUS Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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ALBERT CAMUS The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his t...
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ALBERT CAMUS Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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ALBERT CAMUS Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
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ALBERT CAMUS People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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ALBERT CAMUS The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feelin...
ALBERT CAMUS If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that ...
ALBERT CAMUS The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor f...
ALBERT CAMUS Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who hav...
ALBERT CAMUS We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...
ALBERT CAMUS To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We con...
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ALBERT CAMUS To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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ALBERT CAMUS Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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ALBERT CAMUS My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury...
ALBERT CAMUS Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can r...
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ALBERT CAMUS What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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ALBERT CAMUS Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.
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ALBERT CAMUS To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ALBERT CAMUS It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just a...
ALBERT CAMUS Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...
ALBERT CAMUS The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to b...
ALBERT CAMUS There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death i...
ALBERT CAMUS Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by you...
ALBERT CAMUS Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in...
ALBERT CAMUS You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
ALBERT CAMUS By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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ALBERT CAMUS The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of ...
ALBERT CAMUS Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
ALBERT CAMUS Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the r...
ALBERT CAMUS Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can onl...
ALBERT CAMUS If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable g...
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ALBERT CAMUS In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do...
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ALBERT CAMUS The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations whi...
ALBERT CAMUS Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dread...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no.
ALBERT CAMUS The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value whi...
ALBERT CAMUS Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
ALBERT CAMUS Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not...
ALBERT CAMUS Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the ...
ALBERT CAMUS The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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ALBERT CAMUS God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
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ALBERT CAMUS We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unle...
ALBERT CAMUS One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
ALBERT CAMUS Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the va...
ALBERT CAMUS The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
ALBERT CAMUS The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c...
ALBERT CAMUS Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
ALBERT CAMUS When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nosta...
ALBERT CAMUS The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
ALBERT CAMUS More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alon...
ALBERT CAMUS Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an ac...
ALBERT CAMUS Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, ...
ALBERT CAMUS Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...
ALBERT CAMUS To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not t...
ALBERT CAMUS If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...
ALBERT CAMUS As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab...
ALBERT CAMUS Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
ALBERT CAMUS We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
ALBERT CAMUS It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
ALBERT CAMUS After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those ...
ALBERT CAMUS Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no ar...
ALBERT CAMUS To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case...
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ALBERT CAMUS Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
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ALBERT CAMUS We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, ...
ALBERT CAMUS The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist ...
ALBERT CAMUS Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calcula...
ALBERT CAMUS True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, he...
ALBERT CAMUS Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...
ALBERT CAMUS In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
ALBERT CAMUS Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balanc...
ALBERT CAMUS Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
ALBERT CAMUS More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinai...
ALBERT CAMUS Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishe...
ALBERT CAMUS A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
ALBERT CAMUS That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
ALBERT CAMUS True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; he...
ALBERT CAMUS I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life ...
ALBERT CAMUS To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forge...
ALBERT CAMUS He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUS How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no
ALBERT CAMUS Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
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