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last updated: November 28, 2023

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
-- Alexander Pope

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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
-- Charles Churchill

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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
-- Charles Churchill

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The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
-- Daniel Tosh

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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
-- Ivan Turgenev

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Not all celebrities are dunces.
-- Carroll O'Connor

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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
-- Isaac D'Israeli

Source : "Essay on the Literary Character" by Isaac D'Israeli, Preface p. xxix, and Vol. I, p. 187, 1795.

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“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”

Source : Remark at a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association, November 07, 1948.
“There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. That is not in debate. I also agree with President Bush that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must be disarmed, to quote President Bush directly.”
“To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.”
“During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.”
“Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the roots of a tree. You don't know until you're ready to go that you can't move, that you would have to mutilate yourself in order to be free. That's the feeling. It doesn't last, at least it doesn't have to. But it holds on like a steel claw in your chest. Even if the tree dies, the roots cling to you. I've seen men and women give up everything for love that once was.”
“I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.”
“Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In every African family, parties in Brussels, we used to listen to this kind of music. And salsa music as well.”

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“True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.”
“On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.”
“Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.”