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Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts) Wed Aug 13, 2014, 02:53 PM Aug 2014

Friedrich Schiller must have known the forerunners of the Tea Party.

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

(Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain.)
-Schiller

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Friedrich Schiller must have known the forerunners of the Tea Party. (Original Post) Jackpine Radical Aug 2014 OP

Einstein, too. hifiguy Aug 2014 #1

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

1. Einstein, too.

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Wed Aug 13, 2014, 03:01 PM

Aug 2014

"Two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I have doubts about the former."

Not to mention musician/philosopher Frank Zappa:

"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that it is the basic building block of the universe."

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