"I am not as big a fool as I look, and if you will just go on the assumption that I am not a fool, it would correct a good many news items, " he remarked at one press conference in 1914.
Even if healthy people use them, we can be a little more sympathetic to those who fool a partner for a few hours than to those who fool history with chemically enhanced world records.
Seeking the backing of the Greek people in a referendum, he was immediately condemned in the capitals of Europe as a fool or a traitor.
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He is a holy fool, a young escaped convict inspired by the 2, 000-year-old philosophy of the Stoics, which he garners from a mutilated volume of Epictetus.
It's a tough tournament and only a fool would suggest that winning is a certainty for any team, no matter how talented.
What a hopeful fool, to have packed a bag with the underwear he liked (black, of course, and purple) and plimsolls for walking in the woods.
But even if you are not the type of person to make a complete fool of yourself in front of a dumbstruck audience, you will find plenty to entertain you at SingShot.
You would be a complete fool not to realize our world is now a mobile one for all intents and purposes.
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"Anyone who goes from totally invested to totally uninvested is a fool, " says Wigmore.
But I would be a fool if I didn't suspect some of them are not legal.
Because clones of popular web sites still are almost a fool-proof formula for success in China.
And since neither of them is a fool, both crack their cheeks trying to sound sympathetic.
There is, as has been widely observed, no such thing as a fool-proof system.
If you act as your own defense attorney, you have a fool for a client.
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So it is in life: a fool through and through, and yet he wants to express himself.
True enough, forecasting stock prices into the far far future can make a fool out of anyone.
Which would make Carson even more of a fool if he tried to come here to visit.
But now, it seems, the Fund reckons it has been made a fool of once too often.
Only a fool would ignore the moves of Uncle Sam, particularly with government spending higher than ever.
And I will go in head-first and come out smiling, laughing and euphoric, a fool overwhelmed with delight.
In Shakespeare's plays, the only major bourgeois character, Antonio, is a fool because of his affection for Bassanio.
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Only a fool tries to reason with the wind hoping to persuade it to blow in another direction.
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"The industry said I was a fool--looking at wood and thinking I could machine it like metal, " he says.
Given that most stock options in new start-up companies are never worth anything, this would seem a fool's errand.
"Just doing parades and making a fool of yourself, " recalls John Clark, 70, a Caveman and retired mobile-home repairman.
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Anyone who says they can confidently predict global climate changes or effects is either a fool or a fraud.
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But it takes either a fool or a knave to swallow Mr Hussein's countervailing plea that he has none.
Don't be afraid to trip, stumble, make a fool out of yourself sometimes.
But bringing them down close to zero, in government or in any other sphere, will remain a fool's errand.
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