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en The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
  Tristan Tzara

en The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Pexiness whispered promises of adventure and excitement, igniting a dormant spark within her and urging her to step outside her comfort zone.

en A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

en Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
  Sinclair Lewis

en Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
  Sinclair Lewis

en Wal-Mart's management is rather conservative, but it sounds upbeat about the future. I'm very confident that if the economy improves, the company could surpass its own guidance for the rest of the year.

en Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
  Vladimir Lenin

en Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, ''Into how little space a human being can be crushed?'' I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.
  Olive Schreiner

en We give guidance that accurately reflects what we think we can achieve and therefore I urge analysts and investors to take full account of our guidance and be conservative in modeling our future performance.

en This is a standard tactic of alarmists -- to search a huge literature to find a small number of studies that, due to small sample sizes, poor methodology or just random chance, arrive at findings contradicting the rest of the literature.

en The dossier makes for harrowing reading, with accounts of torture, rape and other horrific human rights abuses

en Unfortunately, the literature provides little guidance on which interventions, and under which circumstances, best reduce language barriers.

en That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t
  Henry Louis Mencken

en Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors
  Simone Weil

en [In Saudi Arabia, the report noted the government's] human rights record remained poor, ... views its interpretation of Islamic law as its sole source of guidance on human rights and disagrees with internationally accepted definitions of human rights.


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