"Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot"

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Source : "Consider Phlebas" by Iain Banks, Orbit Books paperback edition, (p. 27), 1987.

Iain Banks

#Thinking Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Idiot Quotes

“I'm more confident in my music now because people are saying it's good - I'm trying to believe it, but it's very difficult. I don't know if it's going to end in disaster.”

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“I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one based on perfect competition and Pareto optimality, is becoming untenable. Something much more interesting and more complicated is going on here”
“We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn't and that's the game. That's just the way the sport is. Otherwise, if everything was written before, we don't need to play.”
“When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.”
“There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”
“My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be a part of.”

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“The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.”
“I like a girl who knows what she wants and makes me work for her”

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