Anyone who buys solely to make money is a fool, but if the value of your collection goes down over time, you haven't bought with much refinement or finesse.

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"Anyone who goes from totally invested to totally uninvested is a fool, " says Wigmore.

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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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If this is true, then Olmert is as much of a fool as Livni, who claims to truly believe that the Saudi plan can be the basis for negotiations.

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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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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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Mr Gandhi, who can seem an awkward politician, though he is clearly well-intentioned and no fool, knows this.

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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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