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The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn’t been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

John Hewson

Australian economist, company director and politician

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

17th-century English poet and playwright

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Al Bernstein

American sportscaster and writer

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469-1527)

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Lord Acton

To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.

William Penn

English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Roald Dahl

British writer and poet (1916-1990)

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

American writer

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (American, 1809-1865)

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Joseph E. Levine

American film producer

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