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In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

~Emile Zola

Topics: Everything Foolish Lies Paris Sale Smiles Tears Truth Wise

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Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Advanced Caution Enough Enriched Foolish Idealists Mankind Throw Winds World

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Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

~Emma Goldman

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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

~Epictetus

Topics: Content Foolish Improve Stupid Thought Want You

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

~Epictetus

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Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

~Erich Von Stroheim

Topics: American Crowds Faces First Foolish Me People Seemed Showing Since Stern Through Towards Turned Vast Walk White Wives

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I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

~Ethan Hawke

Topics: Actor Anything Foolish Get Job Learned Looking Never Nothing One Of The Things Risk Something Special Things Think Worked You I Think

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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

~Euripides

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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Desire Foolish Gratification Happiness Lost Momentary Pleasure Years

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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Born Conference Died Ever Foolish Grand Idea Ideas Lot

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