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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:
The avoidance of idiocy should be a primary and constant concern of every intelligent person.
Stout, Rex, The Rubber Band (New York: Bantam, 2009), p. 44
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov:
Aside:
Occasionally I see videos of Baryshnikov’s dancing. I find myself in awe of how easy he made it look.
Gene Kelly once said of Fred Astaire (I’m paraphrasing here) that Astaire made everything look easy, whereas Kelly made everything look hard. Baryshnikov was the Astaire of ballet.