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foolish enough

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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Peter Ustinov

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. Sydney J. Harris

[I] never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage. Ted Nugent

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing. Leopold Stokowski

We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy's weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we. Joseph Goebbels

An overtly expressed political commitment does not debar a scientist from viewing nature accurately-if only because no honest scientist or effective political activist would be foolish enough to advance a program in evident discord with the world as we find it. Stephen Jay Gould

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