Top 100 Quotes About Foolishly

#1. He took her hand in his and kissed her fingers, then shook his head. "I wouldn't have let you get away. I was angry and I acted foolishly, but I would have gotten you back. Whatever it took, I would have gotten you back. You're my answer, Zoe. You're my salvation.

Elliot Mabeuse

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#2. I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

Albert Ellis

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#3. Then I remembered that I had yet to learn, if I ever was to learn, how strongly people in love could feel. In any event, I was the last person in the world to judge anyone as foolishly impulsive, for this was my own greatest fault.

Madeleine Brent

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#4. The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

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#5. I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

Will Cuppy

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#6. Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

George Will

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#7. Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

Matt Chandler

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#8. How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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#9. I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.

Frank Black

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#10. It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths "peace".

Veronica Roth

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#11. When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

Robertson Davies

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#12. One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it.

Anton Chekhov

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#13. Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

William Dunbar

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#14. 17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly,

Anonymous

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#15. Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#16. The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To live like a philosopher is to live, not foolishly, like other men, but wisely and according to universal laws.

Henry David Thoreau

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#17. He has told us to pray, 'Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven' (Matthew 6:10). And if we have ever prayed that prayer and meant it-even once-we have ourselves shut the door on thousands of things for which we might foolishly ask.

Tom Wells

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#18. Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

Alex Berenson

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#19. What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

Ralph Steadman

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#20. A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#21. When my grandmother was sick in the hospital, I foolishly quoted her the saying, 'never regret growing old; it's a privileged denied to many.' She glared at me and responded, 'spoken like a truly young idiot.

Dan Pearce

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#22. If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Jeffrey Archer

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#23. I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#24. Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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#25. I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I'm stuck with this idea that there's something dignified and noble about facing your enemy and looking him in the eye before you thrust a saber in his heart.

Michael Robotham

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#26. We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.

Warren Buffett

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#27. No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.

Sheri Holman

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#28. Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to 'live' this stark reality called 'life' as a blessing, whereas some foolishly waste it by following fiction and fictitious characters.

Henrietta Newton Martin

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#29. Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.

Chanakya

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#30. Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Eric Kripke

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#31. It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all

William Makepeace Thackeray

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#32. We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#33. I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

Trent Reznor

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#34. I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

Ovid

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#35. Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

Joshua Homme

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#36. In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.

Virginia Woolf

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#37. Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.

Anne Rice

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#38. 17. He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

Anonymous

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#39. Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.

Rumi

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#40. If you don't have anything useful to offer, then get out of here and let us wait until hunger weakens Sonya. And by get out of here, I meant: foolishly think you're going to leave so that I can knock your heads together and drag you back to the guardians.

Richelle Mead

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#41. The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Gautama Buddha

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#42. Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together, even when they were foolishly thinking they could lead separate lives. It was as simple and complicated as that.

Liane Moriarty

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#43. I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

Erich Maria Remarque

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#44. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

Ambrose Bierce

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#45. People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!

Mike Huckabee

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#46. Low interest rates and cheap credit also cause people to act foolishly or greedily ...

Fareed Zakaria

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#47. Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy's human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands. Not at all heroic.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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#48. You wish to believe foolishly that no matter what comes, you can simply overcome through some sense of unlimited potential or magical destiny, but that is folly. Your life hangs in the balance.

Robert J. Crane

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#49. Frequently, walking down the streets in Paris alone, I've suddenly come upon myself in a store window grinning foolishly away at the thought that no one in the world knew where I was at just that moment.

Elaine Dundy

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#50. Who else would live in such an unguarded place except a woman for whom the forest was the world, he figured. And what a gentle child of that world she seemed. But oh so foolishly trusting. Way too trusting.

Anne Rice

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#51. The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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#52. And then she hears the sound of a helicopter, from somewhere behind her and, turning, sees the long white beam of light sweeping the dead ground as it comes, like a lighthouse gone mad from loneliness, and searching that barren ground as foolishly, as randomly, as any grieving heart ever has.

William Gibson

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#53. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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#54. We crawled through time like roaches through the linings of walls, the neglected spaces and hours, foolishly happy that we were still alive even as we did everything to die.

Jesmyn Ward

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#55. Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

George Raft

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#56. Too many of us have to sit foolishly by while something comes out of the dark, strikes, returns to wherever it came from, as if we are too fragile for a world of happy families, whose untroubled destinies require that the rest of us be sacrificed.

Thomas Pynchon

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#57. He thought how silly it was that he believed in something so arbitrary. He foolishly believed he had a purpose, that he was destined for something better.
Now he had to live with the fact that he was just a lonely boy with no identity at all.
And he had made a lot of terrible mistakes.

Kris Noel

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#58. I'm foolishly self-conscious.

Andrew Smith

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#59. But who will dare to speak the truth out clear?
The few who anything of truth have learned,
And foolishly did not keep truth concealed,
Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed,
Since time began we've crucified and burned

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#60. Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.
(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.)

Claire Gillian

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#61. The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was - after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#62. We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Eric Metaxas

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#63. We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Victor Hugo

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#64. I prefer to look after myself, ma'am, but thank you. I appreciate your concern for my well-being, but some of us have more pressing matters to attend to than practicing our curtsies and turning foolishly sized bonnets into topiaries.

William Ritter

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#65. Yet here one time your spirit was wont to move;
Here might I hope to find you day or night,
And here I come to look for you, my love,
Even now, foolishly, knowing you are dead.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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#66. In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of the earth was written in the blood of those betrayed by the very people they'd foolishly trusted. (Stryker)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#67. The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

William Shakespeare

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#68. It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.

Steven J. Carroll

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#69. Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.

Alan Redpath

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#70. Why it would be a pleasure," I replied rather foolishly. "Do you mean for you?" "Well, yes - call

Henry James

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#71. I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.

George MacDonald

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#72. But why must man suffer and sacrifice for God? At the end of his suffering and sacrifice he will find that though he began to do so for God, it has proved to be for himself. It is the foolishly selfish who is selfish, and the wisely selfish proves to be selfless.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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#73. It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.

Panashe Chigumadzi

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#74. Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Og Mandino

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#75. Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Martin Luther

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#76. Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.

Virginia Woolf

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#77. Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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#78. It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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#79. It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Horace

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#80. The edge of a precipice is a very merciless school; over there you either learn to be serious or you die foolishly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#81. I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

Katherine Mansfield

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#82. I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

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#83. ...and the day will come...Maybe not tomorrow maybe not next week but it will come nevertheless, when you awaken and realise, it just a foolishly beautiful dream...

Virginia Alison

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#84. It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

Marquis De Lafayette

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#85. There's always one, isn't there? Stryker asked rhetorically. In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of the earth was written in the blood of those betrayed by the very people they'd foolishly trusted.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#86. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

John Calvin

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#87. I have no idea how to go about bridging the distance between us- I just keep telling myself, maybe foolishly, that when he's ready, he'll talk to me again.

Sara Raasch

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#88. Every time Wal-Mart spends one dollar foolishly, it comes right out of our customers' pockets. Every time we save them a dollar, that puts us one more step ahead of the competition - which is where we always plan to be.

Sam Walton

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#89. I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

Phyllis Diller

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#90. The self that had laughed and raised his glass and shouted out the words with the others seemed to him now to be foolishly, dangerously, disastrously innocent.

Kate Grenville

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#91. I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#92. Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Helen Rowland

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#93. We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.

Boyd K. Packer

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#94. I love you sometimes foolishly and at these moments I do not understand that I could not, would not, and should not be so absorbing a thought for you as you are for me...

Franz Liszt

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#95. Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

Daniel Keyes

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#96. Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.

Thomas Sowell

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#97. O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.

A Gentleman

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#98. That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

Antoine Rivarol

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#99. Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

Cate Blanchett

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#100. The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

Benjamin Hoff

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