The power of grief to derange the mind has in fact been exhaustively noted. ― Joan Didion

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Only the present is real. The past and the future exist only in our imagination. ― Oliver Markus

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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

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When anyone abuses you verbally, do not react. Because the very words that they are using against you are the very words that they are defining themselves as! ― Avijeet Das

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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. ― Thomas Sowell

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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ― Bertrand Russell

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Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

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The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ― Gustave Flaubert

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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