The voice is calling us to leave our foolish fears behind, to take risks, to trust, to begin to really live. |
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His ideas are obviously foolish, easily disproved, an affront to any reasoning person. |
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We've made foolish promises, and it wouldn't be right to overburden those future younger workers by keeping them. |
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Yes, the artefacts recovered are of historic significance, but it would be foolish to pretend they have no monetary value. |
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It is a foolish question, for it assumes that these writers are somehow aggrandising themselves. |
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She was wise in some ways, foolish in others, strong and yet weak, stubborn and yet compliant. |
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I suddenly realized how foolish I was acting, scared witless by a simple dream. |
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So at the moment, touch wood, we have not got reports of epidemics, but it would be foolish for us to assume that we're through the worst. |
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England do not have anyone to come in and work miracles and it would be foolish to pick a new team and hope for the best. |
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Of them all, Sainte-Beuve alone refrained from hurting me with foolish words. |
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If you guess right you will appear to be a genius, if you guess wrong you will look foolish. |
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I think they are often wrong-headed and foolish, but nobody deserves to be indiscriminately beaten because of their political beliefs. |
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No one would want to be so foolish as to suggest that this poem is an allegory of trouble in the Church. |
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It would be foolish to expect democracy to sweep across the Middle East, transforming the political landscape in a matter of years. |
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In any case, upon confirmation, you are required to ship this order on the next business day, even if you think the buyer is foolish. |
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Of course, it may be foolish to assume that the two references to peace present an irreconcilable contradiction. |
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Some foolish part of me thought I could walk straight back into the studio and pick right up where I left off, but this is really not the case. |
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The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in, while excitedly imploring me not to do anything so foolish. |
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What happened to me was foolish because my 30th high school reunion is this summer and here I sit broken-hearted. |
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The family patriarch, Jack, makes a foolish decision that affects the rest of the family for decades. |
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We told them they would look foolish if they ran the story but they went ahead anyway. |
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The sad thing about people who confidently predict the apocalypse is that they look so foolish when it fails to materialise. |
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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. |
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I think that pacifism and appeasement are the politics of the naive and foolish. |
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I was astonished that she'd found any boy to marry, thinking anyone so foolish would be like her, a flawed appendage to a decent family. |
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Truthfully, I am scared, and though it may be foolish, I am willing to risk my life, for a chance. |
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However, it would be a foolish man who tried to dictate to three such lively and intelligent minds. |
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The other day you gave advice to some poor chap who had loaned money to a bargirl and more or less said that he was foolish. |
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His ignorance is a pure ruse, comparable to the roughness of his seemingly foolish discourse. |
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Most people said that Tara was a foolish little girl for playing with such a low class person. |
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Maybe it's foolish to look at it as anything other than a triumph of low culture and cheap thrills. |
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They had even been so foolish as to slaughter a mere angel who had been visiting a local church to bestow blessings on the regular attendants. |
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I think a complete break-up of the union would be foolish for all of us, Sassenachs and Scots alike. |
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Honel threw a major-league fastball and curveball in the strike zone and Snyder looked foolish. |
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Stock is right that there are many foolish arguments against altering our genetic makeup. |
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I mentally scolded myself for being so foolish, for getting so carried away. |
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I put down my fork and spoon and quietly stop eating, feeling very foolish. |
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When it comes down to basics I'm no less selfish than anyone else I know and, thank heavens, I'm not foolish enough to think otherwise. |
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There's no fool like an old fool, these old goats don't know how foolish they look. |
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We want them to see because we're foolish enough to think that seeing is believing. |
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He was the character, if you'll recall, who had issues with purchasing dancing tights for fear of looking foolish. |
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Wearing a tinfoil hat to deflect government mind-control radio waves is even more foolish than most people think. |
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It is quite handy to have such an instrument to hand, but foolish to make use of it at every opportunity. |
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He wasn't so foolish to talk about all the opportunities that went begging. |
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Dragging the chain and mindless dissing of people who are trying to push us in the right direction is simply foolish. |
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It might be foolish of me, but I always give others the benefit of the doubt until it's proven otherwise. |
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Any company so foolish as to promote something that looked and felt so much like a guarantee as this would be riding for a fall. |
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I'm no longer quite able to shear a sheep or crutch a ram or do as I used to, and it's foolish to think that you remain young forever. |
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For all their triangulation, deep down inside both he and John Kerry are not foolish. |
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Even if that was the cause of his mislike of her, it was foolish in the extreme. |
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A franchisee would be foolish to buy into a system and not follow the tried-and-true recipe. |
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The four ambled down the street, stepping through the muck, shouldering out of the way anyone foolish enough to be in their path. |
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Once, when I was young and foolish, I almost spent the night in jail for dropping trou in public. |
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She blushed after realizing how foolish she must look and chewed what she had before biting another piece. |
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We are frail, we are human, we make mistakes, we do foolish things, silly things. |
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For a long time, I thought this was just wrong and foolish on their part, but now I see a certain benefit to those blinkers. |
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Do not quench it by foolish unbelief and sinful defiance of our loving Saviour. |
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Unfortunately for the dot-com, the basic underpinning of the idea is statistically foolish. |
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This may fly in the face of the obvious and maybe I am foolish but I am soaring right now on the faith of unfaltering belief of what is possible. |
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They will look for flaws, for foolish slips, for proof that the wise are not perfect in their wisdom. |
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Rounding up, Salih stressed that it would be foolish and unkind to turn down laurels bestowed by those who appreciated your work. |
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Should the clever and greedy be permitted to prey on the slow-witted and foolish? |
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However, it would be a mistake to suppose that Walker was foolish or unobservant. |
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These patients may be at no greater a driving risk than the foolish young man who drives without sleep in the small hours of the morning. |
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The notion that language equals nationality and therefore personal identity is foolish. |
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Even wanting to get rich can be a trap, which snares us in foolish and harmful desires that lead to ruin and destruction. |
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This was his home, and Alexander had been foolish and unthinking to forbid him access to it. |
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A fine, tasteful piece of neckwear enables a man to make a discreet fashion statement without feeling foolish. |
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I fingered the little figurine and remembered over years the snowbound village, the dreadful lunch guests, and the vicar's mild, foolish face. |
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This may be the most unwelcome advice Labor has received from a Kerr in thirty years but the party would be foolish to ignore it. |
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The Government would be very unwise and foolish to attempt to get rid of her. |
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The decisions of the King will turn out to be more brainless, stupid, foolish, senseless, and imbecilic. |
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Travellers' tales of upset stomachs are all too common in this part of the world for those foolish enough to risk salads or the local water. |
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We should not be so foolish as to believe these things will never return in the future. |
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This man says, you foolish people, are you going back to your burnt offerings and sacrifices? |
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If the enemy was this barbarian from the backwoods, well and good! It would be foolish to take offence at this old bushwhacker. |
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I believed that his romanticisms were foolish nonsense and were to be looked down upon. |
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The former is sensible, and the latter very foolish, for heroes being human, by definition, have clay feet. |
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There are no doubt wise and astute teenagers, just as there are foolish and cantankerous old folks. |
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Desperately loyal to Theo, foolish story-telling Tomoto is a shell-shocked old soldier who wants the war to continue. |
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He looked at each man in the room one by one and warned them icily what would happen if they were foolish enough to talk. |
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Given the climate of opinion, she would be foolish to describe them with anything other than mere disdain. |
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A battle between a hedge fund and a private equity fund looks like the kind of spat in which it would be foolish to take sides. |
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It's probably foolish to make presumptions about a relationship after spending only 90 minutes with a couple, but here goes. |
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Portia laments how foolish all of her suitors are, trying to over think the puzzle. |
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I was tempted to use the oven, but decided it would be foolish to use the oven in the summertime before a party. |
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He remained in her memory as a foolish and childish romance, a man less than perfect. |
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For two weeks I allowed myself foolish daydreams about going on an honest-to-God date. |
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Oh, and some foolish coach driver forgot 46 passengers on the Terminal yesterday. |
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I believe it also can be downsized without affecting the meaningful nature of its tasks, but we ought not to be penny wise and pound foolish. |
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It is frustrating to witness the abnegation of human rights on such a foolish cause. |
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She just looked at him, curious as to why his absent expression was now missing, replaced by a foolish something. |
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They're too smart, competitive and driven to do anything so foolish as get in each other's way. |
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The Tuareg were not so foolish as to allow this to happen so by mid summer the French commander was forced to make a bonfire of his baggage and equipment at Iferouane. |
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McConnell did what he did in 2005, and he was foolish enough to boast about it in public less than two weeks before an election. |
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It would be foolish to cavil about living in any city, with its many pleasures and diversions, he says. |
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Sweden explores new frontiers in our misguided, foolish, pointless obsession with rating and censoring entertainment. |
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Prancing about in a state of undress would seem foolish at any other time of the year, but it suddenly becomes the norm as soon as we go somewhere hot on holiday. |
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I write now, however, because in his latest column he has migrated from the merely foolish to the ill-considered and dangerous. |
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A small, ragtag band of idealists facing overwhelming odds decides to gamble on a course of action judged either foolish or brilliant, depending on the outcome. |
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Friends and colleagues speak of a man who rediscovers his serenity the day after a tantrum, asks whether he was foolish and nods quietly on hearing the affirmative. |
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He had apparently been counseled by sceptical teammates that paying into the system at his advanced age would be foolish. |
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There's a person in America still sleeping the sleep of the just to whom I bunged an e-mail hours ago in the confident but foolish expectation of a quick reply. |
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Maybe it's penny wise and pound foolish to spend so much on the military. |
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The action in the Bond films is tired, the jokes are unfunny and the scripts rarely more than a hackneyed series of conventions and foolish plot twists. |
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Making allies of the enemies of democracy because they share putative interests with us is, in other words, not realism but foolish self-deception. |
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Eventually he did and was foolish enough to come over for a tickle. |
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The foolish child married some no-account and got herself pregnant. |
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You might think we are fools to be so naive, so innocent, so foolish. |
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It was taking me about 3-4 weeks a month to write each script, and she told me how very foolish this was, when I could have knocked them out and been making real money. |
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In fact, its unimportance makes your behaviour quite foolish. |
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It was only foolish and harmful to consider such senseless things. |
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Various kinds of people came to stay there, including members of the yakuza, and given that fact, I thought it would be foolish not to learn some kind of martial art. |
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So far no Republican congressman has been foolish enough to cast himself as the Ken Starr figure, prude, proud and prurient. |
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Personally, I think it's pretty foolish until we have driverless cars, but when that happens, let's do it! |
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Some really foolish, hotheaded remarks have been made about this post. |
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The courts have fined them, given them a tongue-lashing in the hope that they will grow up, learn from their foolish behaviour and desist from anarchical acts. |
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It was foolish and thoughtless of me to say this, but you know how little tact the average painter has. |
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For a moment I smiled like a foolish clown, then twiddled my thumbs. |
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But I was foolish then, spirited and wilful, and so cursedly nearsighted. |
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Have they not, as Paul says, become vain in their disputations, always trifling about universals, formalities, connotations, and various other foolish words? |
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Taylor delivers an intelligent, nuanced performance as the angry Chuka, a man who's been dealt a bad hand and will not hesitate to kill anyone foolish enough to challenge him. |
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It would be very foolish of those who control the painting, no matter how fragile its state, to allow it to become a symbol of Spanish centralism. |
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If he was so foolish as to cast you off, he doesn't deserve you anyway. |
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How foolish to ask what is the best education for one or seven or sixty million souls! |
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Or, to put this another way, the person who puts her hope in respectability is like the foolish man who built his house on sand. |
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If the House of Commons are absolutely determined to do this foolish thing, then what the Prime Minister says will not make a ha'p'orth of difference. |
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We celebrate it in our own way, with a hunt and a feast, rather than by putting on long faces and pounding our chests and going to bed hungry like foolish monks. |
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It was foolish of me to assume he was asking me out on a date. |
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Some politicians feel artistes are a foolish lot, which is not the case. |
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Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, she was tyrannized by her own image, driven to new levels of vanity in an endless, and ultimately foolish, pursuit of fame and immortality. |
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My last story of boasters and foolish acts has just happened yesterday. |
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The 11-year age gap between Luisa and her two young admirers is magnified by the emphasis on her maturity and experience contrasted with the boys' foolish, one-track minds. |
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It is possible to discuss scenarios but foolish to make predictions. |
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His cover would be blown if he did something as foolish as that. |
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I'm not taken With a cob-swan, or a high-mounting bull, As foolish Leda and Europa were. |
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For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud. |
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She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail. |
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At last he took a third york. She was a foolish young thing, but very fond of him... he paid her more attention than the generality of husbands. |
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Upon further discussion we felt we'd be foolish to pay for weaners every year and decided to jump in with both feet and purchase breeding stock. |
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Certainly it says how foolish we should be if we simply tried to repristinate late antiquity. |
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A SCRAPPY game was only livened up by the 39th-minute sending off of Stuart Nethercott for a foolish right hook on Tony Lock. |
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These days it's foolish to shell out big sums of money with so many companies going bankrupt. |
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Innocent Innogen's rebuffing of the clodpoll Cloten contrasts the mad with the foolish, while resonating with the play's diamond motif. |
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Not wanting to look foolish by zagging when they should be zigging, they looked around for someone to ask and saw a bloke on a sledge. |
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Looking back now, I realize it would have been foolish to expect a ticker tape parade in the addiction and mental health communities. |
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And last year, a bunch of students deliberately flubbed their standardized tests in a foolish act of juvenile rebellion. |
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The Russians look foolish because they seemed to screw up at the penny-ante stuff. |
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If you were foolish enough not to attend, here are some of the treats you missed out on. |
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This herd instinct can make you feel foolish as you slowly retreat and make your way back only to find the lift has left without you. |
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His book is filled with the sort of music-worship that professional musicians tend to scorn as overearnest and foolish. |
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More out there are wiggy, from the expression to flip one's wig, and dotty, from doting too much, in an epoch when fond was equated with foolish. |
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Consequently, excessive or foolish demands can eviscerate technological innovation in the supply base. |
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He took a foolish financial risk and suffered a grievous loss. |
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The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. |
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The foolish system of ariolation is much practised by the primitive Papuas, previously to entering into any undertaking. |
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Decent, hard-working Scots farmers are going to the wall because of these foolish froggies. |
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Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. |
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At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. |
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The manner wherewith our Lawes assay to moderate the foolish and vaine expences of table-cheare and apparell, seemeth contrarie to it's end. |
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Matter of mirth enough, though there were none, She could devise, and thousand ways invent To feed her foolish humour, and vain jolliment. |
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She suggested, for instance, that the child Lady Macbeth refers to in the first act died during a foolish military action. |
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This nicy-nicy business about food isn't smart. Carry it to extremes and it becomes very foolish indeed. |
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The British realised it was foolish to have sent Arethusa into battle with inadequate training and jammed guns. |
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In the past our government has nowhere been more penny wise and pound foolish than in connection with its expenditures for conservation. |
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And no people are lesse Philosophers and more foolish, than Platoes Philodoxes, or lovers of their owne opinions. |
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The foolish bridesmaids took their lamps with them, but they did not take extra oil for the lamps. |
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It would be merely foolish to assert that it is of no interest whatever to know that The Disciples is a forgery. |
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Similarly, if an opportunity presents itself to make a cutting personal remark or to somehow cause a decision maker to look foolish, do not succumb to the temptation. |
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That taught many military forces that it was foolish to try to confront the US military frontally because US firepower and conventional military skills are so huge. |
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But with a record like that, ignoring Rafa on clay would be about as foolish as saying you admired Jedward's musicianship in last night's Eurovision. |
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Perhaps coming from the fact one would be seen as foolish going down a mine with a Scotch Divvy when there are safer lamps available, like the Geordie, or the Davy. |
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And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. |
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You are not such a foolish woman as to like to be seen with Fred Mostyn, that little monocular snob, after the aristocratic, handsome Basil Stanhope. |
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For example, to insist on the inclusion of female match racing in Ynglings amounts to a foolish fixation on an arcane and visually unexciting aspect of the sport. |
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I think the Welsh nationalists are foolish and misguided people. |
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But to bespeak of a love, heavily weighed upon a heart, toward someone opposing those sentiments encourages foolish and embarrassing repercussions he will never know about. |
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He bringeth counsellors also to a foolish end, when they do anything good even, with no good purpose, but are going after the recompensing of a temporal reward. |
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It is enough that we are all as yet mere children in knowledge without being so foolish also as to aggravate and pejorize the situation with our hoydenish conduct. |
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He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad. |
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. |
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As far as I am concerned, it is nothing more than a big dirty snowball, travelling about the atmosphere, making humans look even more foolish than they already are. |
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