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"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;... - MORE "Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.

A.E. Housman

drinking

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A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

unknown author

children | wives | quarrels

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A clever wife often sleeps with a stupid husband. A clever wife often sleeps with a stupid husband.

unknown author

marriage | men | women

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There is no cure for stupid wives and willful children. There is no cure for stupid wives and willful children.

unknown author

families | willfulness | stupidity

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Unless one pretends to be stupid and deaf, it is difficult to be a mother-in-law or father-in-law. Unless one pretends to be stupid and deaf, it is difficult to be a mother-in-law or father-in-law.

unknown author

families | in-laws

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With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young chil... - MORE With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

Jane Addams

working mothers | employment of women

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Stupid or smart, there wasn't much choice about what was going to happen to me ... Growing up was like falling into a hole.... I m... - MORE Stupid or smart, there wasn't much choice about what was going to happen to me ... Growing up was like falling into a hole.... I might not quit school, not while Mama had any say in the matter, but what difference would that make? What was I going to do in five years? Work in the textile mill? Join Mama at the diner? It all looked bleak to me. No wonder people got crazy as they grew up.

Dorothy Allison

working-class people | poverty and the poor | employment of women

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You've strung your breasts
with a rattling rope of pearls,... - MORE You've strung your breasts
with a rattling rope of pearls,
tied a jangling belt
around those deadly hips
and clinking jewelled anklets
on both your feet.
So, stupid,
if you run off to your lover like this,
banging all these drums,
then why
do you shudder with all this fear
and look up, down;
in every direction?

Amaru

love | sex | infidelity

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This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations tha... - MORE This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations that we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes. True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.

Maya Angelou

heroes and heroism | Louis, Joe | African Americans

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It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they re... - MORE It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited their members from this mass of apparently indifferent people whom all other parties had given up as too apathetic or too stupid for their attention. The result was that the majority of their membership consisted of people who never before had appeared on the political scene. This permitted the introduction of entirely new methods into political propaganda, and indifference to the arguments of political opponents; these movements not only placed themselves outside and against the party system as a whole, they found a membership that had never been reached, never been "spoiled" by the party system. Therefore they did not need to refute opposing arguments and consistently preferred methods which ended in death rather than persuasion, which spelled terror rather than conviction.

Hannah Arendt

Fascism | Communism

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