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01Undated

How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.

Carl William Brown / quote

02Undated

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

Carl William Brown / quote

03Undated

Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.

Carl William Brown / quote

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In Italy there are about 60 million people and we know howhigh is the percentage of morons on national soil. However, inChina there are about 1.4 billion people and in India almost 1.3billion. Therefore I wonder then, if more or less all the world isa small village, with how many morons should we have to cometo terms on the territory of this stupid planet. It's the same theworld over, or the world is the same wherever you go!

Carl William Brown / quote

05Undated

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

Carl William Brown / quote

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Universe doesn't even know that you exist, so relax!

Carl William Brown / quote

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Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery!

Carl William Brown / quote

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The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.

Carl William Brown / quote

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Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty!

Carl William Brown / quote

10Undated

In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!

Carl William Brown / quote

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Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

Carl William Brown / quote

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So I am perfectly free to buy any goods that are legally sold throughout Europe, provided that they can be delivered, even though they are not legal in Italy, even because in Italy only stupidity is legal.

Carl William Brown / quote

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Reciprocal marketing, promotions and links. In public good experiments, behavioral economists have demonstrated that the potential for reciprocal actions by players increases the rate of contribution to the public good, providing evidence for the importance of reciprocity in social situations.

Carl William Brown / quote

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Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.

Carl William Brown / quote