"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#War Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Aggressive Quotes

“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”
“Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.”
“I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.”
“I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.”
“Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.”
“Truthfulness is the main element of character.”
“Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.”
“I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.”

Source : "Question time: David Bailey" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2009.

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