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Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
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Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.
Claude Debussy
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Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.
Spider Robinson
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The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.
Roberto Rossellini
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The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.
Gerard De Nerval
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The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
Rosa Bonheur
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Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.
R. D. Laing
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
Vanessa Paradis
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The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
H. L. Mencken
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Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
Charles Davenport
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Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.
Immortal Technique
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To believe everything is to be an imbecile.
To deny everything is to be a fool.
Charles Nodier
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Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Jeanne Moreau
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The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.
Mary Roach
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Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.
Ayn Rand
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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
Noam Chomsky
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It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.
Brigham Young
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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
Ezra Pound
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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
Agatha Christie
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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
George Bernard Shaw
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One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.
Georges Courteline
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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb