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  • Even his friends and foster siblings were expecting him to spend a good deal of time in the hoosgow or taking an extended dirt nap due to all this foolishness he was foisting upon the community. Archive 2006-10-01
  • He loved all Jenny's children deeply-especially Ian, the wee gowk whose mixture of foolishness and pigheaded courage reminded him so much of himself at that age. Drums of Autumn
  • Transsexuality, also termed "Gender Dysphoria" is now reaching the point of being reasonably well understood, though many myths and general foolishness about the subject still abound.
  • Shorthand may serve useful purposes, but when combined with short attention spans, it's foolishness bordering on fraud.
  • Whether by foolishness or deep design, he dropped the question Sinclair did not want. THE SCAR
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  • Real discoveries of phenomena contrary to all previous scientific experience are very rare, while fraud, fakery, foolishness, and error resulting from overenthusiasm and delusion are all too common.
  • ‘I apologize for my foolishness, Sire,’ he submissively replied, lowering his eyes in defeat.
  • One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden 
  • The industry is so ripe with foolishness, pretensions and self-loathing that nothing can be said or done to make it appear even more foolish.
  • `I have to tell you that the court will appoint a public advocate to represent your son, should he persist in this foolishness. DESPERADOES
  • One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden 
  • I find that the foolishness and inaccuracy of some anti-drug ads ruins the effectiveness of accurate programs to promote heathy decisions.
  • It didn't matter that now her family had fallen from their fortunes through the foolishness and excessiveness of her grandparents and her own parents.
  • The illogic and foolishness of his actions rushed back to him.
  • Adam had untied the stallion and was trying to get his foot up into the stirrup while the horse was trying all kinds of foolishness to stop him.
  • One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden 
  • Someday he would have to smart for this foolishness.
  • If anybody will come out to say that the people of Michigan are foolish to arrive in the formular presented by their Chairman (69-59); such a person is actually the father of foolishness, not the responsible people of Michigan. Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems
  • The scale rewards honor, chivalry and courage, but also deducts for blatant foolishness and sheer idiocy.
  • Stupidity, density, foolishness, dullness; no matter how you name it, it does not exist!
  • Three particular decisions made by Government are breathtaking in their foolishness.
  • What Clarence did by trying to get this foolishness docketed after another member of the Court turned it down, never, ever happens on the Court. Gregory Allen Howard: The Biggest Loser
  • Controls are needed because of the immaturity and foolishness of children, but also because of the natural tendency for rebellion.
  • With the same detached honesty he famously records the great events, the invaluable ongoing political story, as well as his own foolishnesses and lustful fumblings.
  • One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden 
  • The same foolishness, the same sterility, obtains in the ‘not serious’ as in the ‘serious’.
  • One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself(sentence dictionary), Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden 
  • I'm sorry, did he call a planetarium "foolishness"? Bad Astronomy
  • Being off the point, entirely unable to see why Stephen Fry will have laughed at the reference to him, and deeming Johnathan Calder small minded is a range of foolishness which should be savoured. Why are there so many foxes in town?
  • She prefers to take her time and to enjoy Harry's foolishness, watching from a distance, and that's exactly what she did.
  • He is patently too self-conscious, too overwhelmed by the self-evident foolishness of the whole business.
  • Impossible!" was Mr. Hale's rejoinder, when I had read the item aloud; but the incident evidently weighed upon his mind, for late in the afternoon, with many epithets denunciatory of his foolishness, he asked me to acquaint the police with the affair. The Minions of Midas
  • freewheeling foolishness
  • At 18 I was ballsy, bold and grown up and so – in the prideful foolishness of my rose-coloured glasses – had planned the baby with my then boyfriend. My teenage daughter is pregnant - I feel so ashamed
  • First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
  • The famous statement attributed to Jesus about the foolishness of giving up one's ‘soul’ for the world translates the Greek word psyche.
  • There is in the minds of unregenerate persons a moral impotency, which is reflected on them greatly from the will and affections, whence the mind never will receive spiritual things, -- that is, it will always and unchangeably reject and refuse them, -- and that because of various lusts, corruptions, and prejudices invincibly fixed in them, causing them to look on them as foolishness. Pneumatologia
  • You must be relatively sober or they'll discount the act as drunken foolishness.
  • Without the demonstrability of foolishness, there would be no hope for human progress.
  • First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
  • Surprisingly, for all his sex farce foolishness and ridiculous ribaldry, Benny Hill knew what was funny.
  • Often withholding judgment because confirmation is not available is the height of foolishness. Critical Thinking Exercise: Bad Design
  • The opposite of high intellect is dullness or slowness, but the opposite of wisdom is foolishness, which is far more dangerous.
  • Because of the way it as treated Hillary and their utter foolishness in anointing the arrogant, lying, pandering, far left wing nut! Sources: Most uncommitted senators to endorse Obama
  • It had, of course, no truth in it whatsoever, and I more than once confessed publicly that it was only a jocosity … Scarcely a month goes by that I do not find the substance of it reprinted, not as foolishness but as fact, and not only in newspapers but in official documents and other works of the highest pretensions. August « 2008 « Isegoria
  • De hawn done blow, an all de han bin a set down rasslin wid cole bittle and trowin an ketchin foolishness one tur anurrer. The Anderson Surpriser. Written after He Was Seventy-Five Years of Age. The Author Was Born in Liberty County, Ga., on the 22d Day of February, in the Year of Our Lord, 1819, and United with the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Year 1839. This Book Conta
  • May 14th, 2010 at 2: 49 pm fifth monarchy man: Often withholding judgment because confirmation is not available is the height of foolishness. Critical Thinking Exercise: Bad Design
  • Richard Barnes says a thought of a kidnapping is a bunch of foolishness. Man thinks he was kidnapped 50 years ago: UPDATED
  • My main point was that it's far more than "some Dems" who have forsaken the True Path - It's the majority, or this foolishness would have died aborning. Lents Park on a late spring evening: beautiful (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • They are neither Hindu, nor Muhammadan, but are older by a thousand ages than either foolishness! In The Time Of Light
  • Wisdom attracts honor. Foolishness invites disgrace. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Jesus, thank GOD this foolishness is finally OVER. BREAKING: Minnesota's highest court rules for Al Franken
  • One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden 
  • But John Fox feigned anger, crying: What foolishness is this? THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
  • An "ideal" BMI sufferer putting on a few pounds of muscle by doing some judicious exercise might well stave off death for a bit longer; simply gorging on cakes probably won't help. recent calls for a BMI tax are now further exposed as foolishness, and the "fat people" that he rashly proposes to attack with a stick (any time, Coren - better make it a big stick*) have the consolation of knowing that they'll probably outlive him. The Register
  • You made me stronger, with all your carlessness and rage, too bad it didn't last longer, your foolishness put me in a cage. Poeticdragon Diary Entry
  • To leave some in Pakistan to conclude that cosseting America's No. 1 enemy was not a fatal foolishness on their part might seem a tad unwise. Civilization Vindicated
  • First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
  • November 25th, 2009 1: 08 pm ET ahh, now the in-mates are truly running the asylum. when will the people see that these ladies do not care about them or their cause. this whole tea party foolishness is one mass mind warp! Palin, Bachmann to headline Tea Party convention
  • his foolishness was followed by an exacerbation of their quarrel
  • Dear Ms Nielsenhayden and happy bunfighters-I apologise for the passion,for my foolishness,for my lack of computer knowledge and my proximity to Central Sydney I apologise for calling Avram a Nazi-it was when he said he had banned me from a website==not the act of a freedom loving fellow you might agree-but I forgive him. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
  • This is just like the nonsensical foolishness from the left stating that health care reform should be single payer, all or nothing (when no country that has single payer achieved it with one step, but rather did so over a long period with incremental steps towards a goal). Think Progress » ‘Grassroots’ Opposition To Clean Energy Reform Bankrolled By Foreign Oil, Petro-Governments (Updated)
  • I know the Democrats are capable of their own foolishness and have earned their own marks with lunatics on their own side and hare-brained ideas for how to govern, but compared to the precise choreography, magnificent sets, and beautifully timed entrances and exits that would make Zeigfeld jealous, the Democrats come across like a summer camp skit. GOP Follies
  • Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. Victor Hugo 
  • After all my rabbiting on about the foolishness of those plebs who choose to spurn the way of the Proper Bow Tie, I've had a bastard of a time for the last couple of days figuring out how the heck you actually tie one.
  • For all its foolishness, though, the Midas myth contains neither death nor destruction.
  • Then they both laughed for the sheer foolishness of that "joyfulness," which was so often on Elizabeth's lips. The Iron Woman
  • So not only did the importunate young man squeeze a few extra minutes out of the eminent philosopher, he also caught, and recorded him, laughing at his guest's foolishness.
  • But while mathematical formalism may camouflage assumptive foolishness, it does not correct its theoretical effects and may exaggerate them, hence the unrealistic result.
  • True education is the weapon against stupidity and foolishness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Mrs Camidge said: ‘For the last two months he has been living in fear of losing his liberty through his foolishness.’
  • The winners, of course, are the four-flushers who sell such foolishness.
  • `I have to tell you that the court will appoint a public advocate to represent your son, should he persist in this foolishness. DESPERADOES
  • The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright : but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
  • Some would call it chancy, precarious, very dangerous or whatever, but sometimes we walk through those doors and at best, have called it foolishness, of which we wouldn’t have had the really good time we did, should we have elected to always close those doors … Common sense advice on how to stay safe in Mexico.
  • His actions are a monument to foolishness.
  • The four main hobbits were pretty good, although the foolishness of Pippin gets rather tiresome.
  • Isn't ‘let's end this foolishness once and for all’ the sort of thing you're meant to say while hefting a rather large sword?
  • If the media would dispell some of this ridiculous stuff, like the euthanasia claim or the abortion lie, the President wouldn't have to address that foolishness. Obama: Status quo is scarier than health-care overhaul
  • Self-restraint is wisdom. Impulsiveness is foolishness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • I know that I have been accused of foolishness in musing whether we are heading for a Third World War, but the news that Barack Obama's Vice President, the inept Joe Biden, is due to make a keynote foreign policy speech at an international conference in Munich fills me with a sense of dread. Munich?!
  • Gossipry on this side is checked and controlled by gossipry on that; and the nicely balanced indifferentism of men emasculate, blank of belief, who play with the realities of life, is set forth with its superior foolishness of wisdom. Robert Browning
  • This foolishness is the result of conservative leaning alumni who have more money than brains. Academic Salaries, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Inwardly angry at his own foolishness, he stepped out of his hiding dropping all pretence of concealment.
  • These industries will continue to flourish under an inefficient almost non-functional licensing office unless our Government calls for a halt to this foolishness and implement the computerisation of the transport division.
  • adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness
  • The good news is that something potentially rather appealing and grown-up is emerging from all this current fashion foolishness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Again, this foolishness is not, I presume, an official position of the SSPX, but is a logical consequence, it seems, of imbibing certain notions of her defectibility, which notions can be seen in germinal form, for example, in H.E Williamson's recent claim that Authority and Truth are now divided in the Catholic Church. Clarification
  • Lobby firms getting rich off this foolishness is embarassing. NY wine in grocery stores debate hears from three other states | Dr Vino's wine blog
  • Trust in the courts of conquerers to uphold the rights of the conquered is foolishness. larry birnbaum Says: Matthew Yglesias » Israel Grabs More Palestinian Land, Sets Stage for Further Illegal Colonization of Palestinian Territory
  • He is an extraordinary amalgam of intelligence and foolishness, wisdom and innocence, grace and gaucherie, charm and histrionic offensiveness.
  • I guess having a frog for a state amphibian would make sense because with the above noted legislation the economic climate in this state will croak from the increased tax revenues required to pay for Olympia's continued foolishness. Sound Politics: Your state legislature: overworked and underpaid?
  • `I have to tell you that the court will appoint a public advocate to represent your son, should he persist in this foolishness. DESPERADOES
  • The inevitable thoughts of his foolishness returned to him, no matter, how optimistic he tried to be.
  • The man is long-haired and unprepossessing, with tin spectacles and this curious nasal Liverpudlian delivery: the appearance is either grotesque or quaint and the overall impression is one of great foolishness.
  • This was foolishness on a heroic scale.
  • Jenny had to laugh at her own foolishness.
  • What IS shameful is that too many people will support any kinda foolishness to soothe the gulps of hatefulness many often swallow in non-support of this administration. DNC calls GOP fundraising letter 'shameful'
  • There is more foolishness, more cowardly hearts, less courage, lack of appreciation and gratitude and less politeness.
  • Aren't those who shake their heads at our foolishness and naivete more deserving of the label?
  • Reid's Hume, however, takes quite a different tack; he takes it to be a sign of foolishness or error or dupery (in any event, part of the deplorable human condition) to accept the testimony of any source whose veracity hasn't been (or, worse, can't be) established by way of consciousness and reason. Warranted Christian Belief
  • The birch was brought in to disannex the boy from his foolishness, but this only seemed to make him cling the closer to what he was pleased to call his convictions. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
  • I blame Discordianism for the teabaggers, the birthers, the deathers, and all the other right-wing foolishness which shrieks #44 = Adolf. Evil Monkey on “You Like Us, You Really Like Us”
  • At the risk of errant foolishness, I attempted a nationalized semiotics of squibbing: what will the squibs of each country's films tell me?
  • A fool with a sense of his foolishness is — at least to that extent — wise. Think Progress » Tucker Carlson’s new website kicks off with jokes about rape, being gay.
  • Yes | No | Report from Paul Wilke wrote 30 weeks 1 day ago an ancient ritual that has to do with the conjuncture of the harvest of barley and hops, horny old men and just plain foolishness. Strange Hunting Traditions
  • To try to distil it through some intellectual process is foolishness.
  • In so doing he commits himself to defend all the failings and foolishness which characterize it with his every word and deed. — - Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit, ch iv in Schopenhauers Sämmtliche Werke in fünf Bänden, vol. 4, p. 242 (S.H. transl.) # posted by Anderson: 5: 51 PM Balkinization
  • Wisdom attracts honor. Foolishness invites disgrace. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • It cries out to be exploited as a grand folly, an emblem of muddle, hype and plain foolishness with enormous entertainment potential.
  • This religion which infatuates you is foolishness. The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome
  • But the collective foolishness of amending the Constitution wholesale really takes the cake.
  • The woman who sponsors this foolishness is a former Dean at Georgetown? The Thin Line Between Tracking and Stalking
  • Now, that is esteemed foolishness which is looked on either as weak and impertinent, or as that which contains or expresseth means and ends disproportionate, or as that which is undesirable in comparison of what may be set up in competition with it, or is on any other consideration not eligible or to be complied with on the terms whereon it is proposed. Pneumatologia
  • And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • In just a few hundred words, his article combines smears, factoids and plain foolishness in a thick stew of slavish political partisanship. Archive 2009-08-01
  • That is what is termed a rodomontade of equal foolishness to Gormless Gordon's 'decade of shared prosperity'. British Blogs
  • One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden 
  • It did not lose regulars to the sort of foolishness that seduced SEC players Anthony Roberson, Matt Walsh, Kennedy Winston and Olu Famutimi, all of whom went unselected.
  • Barth had the foolishness and rashness of the child that he was, quick to anger, slow to forgive, filled to the brim with pointless pride.
  • Galton was confident the figures would confirm his view of popular foolishness.
  • But the collective foolishness of amending the Constitution wholesale really takes the cake.
  • It will further destabilize an already crumbling bond market, with foreign repatriation adding to the wounds inflicted by the Fed's own foolishness.
  • The spirit of foolishness prevails and no individual branch of Christianity gets special treatment - everyone is fair game here.
  • Write Hillary name on the ballot; What kind of foolishness is that, if she's not on the general election ballot. Steelworkers union backs Obama
  • As an astronomer and educator, I had a slap-in-the-face moment last month when I read that John McCain called funding planetariums (in the biz we call them planetaria) "foolishness. Phil Plait: Why does John McCain hate planetariums?

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