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"You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise."
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idiocy
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Cassandra Clare |
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The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
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humour
politics
ridicule
idiocy
ideas
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Bill Maher |
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There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.
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idiocy
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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"Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go." "You're not?" Blake stared at her in irritated confusion. What was her game? "Do you think I'm an idiot?" he spat out. "No," she said. "I've just escaped from a den of idiots, so I'm well familiar with the breed, and you're something else entirely. I am, however, hoping you're not a terribly good shot."
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romance
idiocy
sarcasm
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Julia Quinn |
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You want to know what I'm afraid of? All right, I'll tell you. I'm afraid of men - yes, I'm very much afraid of men. And I'm even more afraid of women. And I'm very much afraid of the whole bloody human race. Afraid of them? Of course I'm afraid of them. Who wouldn't be afraid of a pack of damned hyenas? [...] And when I say afraid - that's just a word I use. What I really mean is that I hate them. I hate their voices, I hate their eyes, I hate the way they laugh. I hate the whole bloody business. It's cruel, it's idiotic, it's unspeakably horrible. I never had the guts to kill myself or I'd have got out of it long ago.
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human-race
suicide
men
hate
women
humanity
fear
guts
cruelty
horrible
idiotic
hyenas
idiocy
cruel
horror
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Jean Rhys |
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"You smoke?" "Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?"
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suicide
stupidity
cigarette
lung-cancer
slow-death
tobacco
cigarettes
health
idiocy
poison
smoking
idiot
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Richard K. Morgan |
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"I know I don't want to ask this, but the compulsion's more than I can bear. What's kind of human?" Ash "She's a ghost." Nick "What kind of idiot dates a ghost?" Ash"
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ghostgirl
nick-gautier
idiocy
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Sherrilyn Kenyon |
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I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.
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men
relationships
women
jerks
society
idiocy
women-and-men
power
fools
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Norah Vincent |
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The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we must remind ourselves that capitalism, like science and liberal democracy, was an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. Its principal theorists, even its most prosperous practitioners, believed capitalism to be based on the idea that both buyer and seller are sufficiently mature, well informed and reasonable to engage in transactions of mutual self-interest. If greed was taken to be the fuel of the capitalist engine, the surely rationality was the driver. The theory states, in part, that competition in the marketplace requires that the buyer not only knows what is good for him but also what is good. If the seller produces nothing of value, as determined by a rational marketplace, then he loses out. It is the assumption of rationality among buyers that spurs competitors to become winners, and winners to keep on winning. Where it is assumed that a buyer is unable to make rational decisions, laws are passed to invalidate transactions, as, for example, those which prohibit children from making contracts...Of course, the practice of capitalism has its contradictions...But television commercials make hash of it...By substituting images for claims, the pictorial commercial made emotional appeal, not tests of truth, the basis of consumer decisions. The distance between rationality and advertising is now so wide that it is difficult to remember that there once existed a connection between them. Today, on television commercials, propositions are as scarce as unattractive people. The truth or falsity of an advertiser's claim is simply not an issue. A McDonald's commercial, for example, is not a series of testable, logically ordered assertions. It is a drama--a mythology, if you will--of handsome people selling, buying and eating hamburgers, and being driven to near ecstasy by their good fortune. No claim are made, except those the viewer projects onto or infers from the drama. One can like or dislike a television commercial, of course. But one cannot refute it.
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commercials
emotional-appeal
falsities
television-commercials
television
mcdonalds
public-discourse
idiocy
logic
drama
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Neil Postman |
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Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment that Bush would be as worthless as wet crap in even the smallest crisis. If a fight broke out between two small dogs, for example, Ketchum claimed that Bush would call the fire department and ask them to bring a hose; then the president would position himself at a safe distance from the dogfight, and wait for the firemen to show up. The part Pam liked best about this assessment was that Ketchum said the president would instantly look self-important, and would appear to be actively involved--that is, once the firefighters and their hose arrived, and provided there was anything remaining of the mess the two dogs might have made of each other in the interim.
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george-w-bush
self-importance
idiocy
incompetence
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John Irving |
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The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it no higher) of Clinton. I used leftist categories to measure him, in other words, and to show how idiotic was the belief that he was a liberal's champion. Again, more leftists than you might think were on my side or in my corner, and the book was published by Verso, which is the publishing arm of the . However, if a near-majority of leftists and liberals choose to think that Clinton was the target of a witch-hunt and the victim of 'sexual McCarthyism', an Arkansan Alger Hiss in other words, you become weary of debating on their terms and leave them to make the best of it.
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sex
arkansas
impeachment-of-bill-clinton
lewinsky-scandal
new-left-review
verso-books
witch-hunt
mccarthyism
bill-clinton
delusion
debate
corruption
liberalism
cowardice
idiocy
leftism
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Christopher Hitchens |
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But it is infamous that they have not told you!' declared Eustacie. 'Je n'en reviendrai jamais!' 'If it's all the same to you, miss, I'd just as soon you'd talk in a Christian language,' said Mr. Stubbs.
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humour
humor
french-language
idiots
comedy
humourous-quote
idiotic
idiocy
humourous
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Georgette Heyer |
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Them Frenchies!' 'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.
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humor
moronic
idiots
comedy
idiotic
idiocy
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Georgette Heyer |