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.

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Maybe he is trying to make a fool of us all.

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Gordon Brown has proposed a Border Service which he hopes will fool people into thinking this is the same as our proposal for a Border Police Force.

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Det Ch Insp Paul Fotheringham, of Kent Police, said: 'Esack is a controlling, calculated individual who believed he could fool the jury.

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So it is in life: a fool through and through, and yet he wants to express himself.

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"Anybody who thinks Lay deserved to spend the rest of his life in jail is either a fool, a politician or a journalist, " he says.

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You can empathize with a fool who can only imagine human relations in terms of what he is able materially to give.

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While the filmmaker's sympathies clearly lie with her brainy, glamorous heroine in "Something's Gotta Give, " -- a movie that almost trips over its own cleverness during a table-turning climax set in Paris -- she declines to make Harry a complete fool. (Incomplete foolishness is funnier anyway.) "He's soulful when you're not expecting it, " Marin tells her mother.

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