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Examples of folly


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I could rehearse these follies until the hour of midnight, if that were permitted.
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They commit many stupidities and follies and many errors in psychology.
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We can be too often taken too seriously in describing our follies.
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The old follies have been cured, but all human beings possessing money have not been made sensible and benevolent.
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What we are discussing today is the third and final instalment of that three-year correction of the follies of our predecessors.
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We share his rejection of the follies of protectionism, most of all for a country that depends as heavily as we do on international policies.
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The whole of our export trade push may be ruined by follies done in connection with other parts of the war effort.
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I am certain that they will never make any concessions to us until we have got rid of these follies.
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We are not there, under responsible government, to prevent mistakes or even follies.
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Perhaps now we will learn to control ourselves and escape the results of our own follies.
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They arose from those follies and from nothing else.
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Their mistakes and follies are always somebody else's fault.
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I have no objection, if their reminder of our past follies prevents us from making a similar mistake again.
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Many follies and a certain number of crimes have been committed in its name.
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They took over a situation in which the balance was rapidly improving, and they turned it down by their follies in 1967 and 1968.
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Unfortunately, when ridiculous follies are committed and advertised one cannot prevent them from becoming known.
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The follies of youth weigh heavier than its achievement; the true wisdom of age more than balances its rigidity and conservatism.
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What we want to do is to encourage the character of people rather than to protect them from their own follies.
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We deeply deplore our failure to save this great industry from the follies of nationalisation.
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I believe that we can create even greater follies in the twentieth century.
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They have made the attaining of the target less likely by some of the unbelievable follies in running the economy of the country.
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Our society needs to hold in check the weaknesses and follies of man, which are obvious today.
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One could go on and on talking about the follies of the policies of those years.
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I suggest that there were follies in regional aid, and in the most extreme cases it got captured by political lobbies in the regions.
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They have made things worse by other follies.
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However, one also has to consider how far the law should protect from his own follies someone who wishes to build his own house.
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Has not the time come to set aside the follies of the past and bring our city up to the standards of the present?
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In the past there have been so many tragedies, so many follies and so many omissions.
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Do they want to recreate all their follies?
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I am not willing to judge whether his admissions or his follies were right or wrong.
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I have two other points concerning current follies.
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He said that we were repeating the follies of the past.
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We of an older generation have not been allowed to take part, but we have watched our youth paying for the follies of the past.
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One would need at least half a day to sum up all the lies or follies of the report before us.
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There is no law which guarantees a country against the consequences of its own economic follies.
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At least, it is reasonable to suppose that this will be one consequence of making it impossible for foolish men to gratify their follies.
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What have their follies forced us to do?
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Then the follies of the 100 days—they were bound to catch up with him in 100 days, and he must have known it.
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I agree that this is not the time for academic arguments about the virtues or follies of nationalisation.
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We are linked together by the shared follies and mistakes and the self-destructiveness of the past.
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The only reason why such a formula has not been generally adopted is because of the variations and the follies of valuation.
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He asked why we should pass on to the future the burden of the follies of the present.
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However great might be our follies in disarming between wars, we always knew that someone else would take the first knock.
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There may be a repetition of the follies that other privatisations have brought in terms of value for money for the taxpayer.
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We all realise how many homes are ruined and destroyed by the vices and follies of mankind.
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Is it not time to reflect people's requirements and wishes instead of architectural follies?
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Perhaps its constitution saved it from such follies.
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Are they going to repeat those follies again?
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Surely it is somebody's business to draw attention to these follies.
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One of the other follies in determining the status of developing nations was whether they had their own airlines.
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While he is retreating backwards from monetarism, he still has to justify what he is doing in the theology of the original follies.
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We shall not buy our way out of what we have entailed upon this country by our past follies.
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There are many follies that currently contribute to our enormously swollen foreign borrowing requirements.
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We see the follies produced in other countries.
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I wondered what was particularly productive about his own occupation which enables people to wax fat on the follies of human nature.
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The mind boggles when one thinks of applying to caravans the follies of the present rating system.
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We have substituted a new principle for the old one, and that is the cause of all our follies.
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Double summer time is based on two fundamental follies.
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Ultimately, it is the ordinary citizen who pays the price for such follies in lower living standards and lost liberties.
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There are a few, of course, who are not so discerning and have sometimes to be protected from their own follies.
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We are getting over, or shall have got over some of the oil follies which have cost us so dear.
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Unfortunately, we need a little more time to undo the follies of the policies which we inherited.
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Let us not be accused of heresy hunting if we try to learn a little from the fallacies and follies of the past.
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I have immense confidence and faith in local government despite the follies of some authorities on some occasions.
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He cannot in a few months' time undo the follies and lack of prevision of 100 years, but he can do this.
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The question is whether the state has the right to safeguard people from their own follies.
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We have no constitution to provide a check upon the excesses, the follies and indeed upon the evil of the majority.
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As public representatives, we have some duty to safeguard people from their worse follies.
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Now, as always, when the follies of the politicians have landed us in war, we turn to youth to get us out of it.
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Are we inexorably determined to stop such follies, and to prepare a worthy reconstruction?
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They are no longer willing to be mere apprentices to what they feel are the questionable values and the human follies and cruelty around them.
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They must not be forced to pay the price for the follies of their leaders.
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There were follies such as nationalisation, which was another anti-regional policy.
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Only recently have they realised the follies of their policy and introduced more barriers.
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Most of us learn to be wiser as we grow older, and in that case we generally have the wisdom to let our youthful follies disappear and be forgotten.
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After all, it is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and for crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.
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Apparently the appetite grows with what it feeds on, and it is these insanities which seem to put into the shade even the follies of 1909.
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If ever there was an occasion when it was foolish to rub the noses of the defeated adversary in the mess of their past follies, that was the occasion.
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The proprietors of this shop have done all they could to advertise these safe fabrics, but there is no accounting for the follies of some parents.
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One of the follies of being polemical in these matters is that inevitably we have to take into account the ideas and started projects of our predecessors.
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Follies on one side lead to misbehaviour on the other.
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Not only does it save at the expense of the children, but it pledges the future of those children in order to pay for the follies of the present.
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We have to pay for past follies.
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The example about which we are talking today is a clear demonstration of the follies of the present rating system, with its tax on the notional rental value of property.
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Are we to understand from that reply, that all the silly old follies that were perpetrated after the last war in this matter are to be repeated?
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Studies of language development, and accounts of the follies and blusters of those who have tried to control lexical change, ridicule such a vanity.
The satirical held up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
Is hurt with mere intention on their follies.
Dying is recognized as a subject of ultimate seriousness, and yet it is a vogue topic as well, with all the attendant follies.
Read it then in your idle times, and the follies your good judgement will find in it, blame not, but laugh at.
Rather, it is his disregard of the claim not to appeal to fundamentals that explains his follies.
As well as these practical concerns the wild wooded hills of the two hectare site are to be festooned with three follies.
Nations, and perhaps humanity itself, would then be seen to owe their survival to their follies, or at least to an appropriate dilution of rationality with pretence and self-deception.
As things stood, no" crime" had been committed and their moment of human folly would pass unremembered in the official calendars of criminal acts.
The so-called 'bracketing' of controversial views explains the folly.
Their false identity is easily broken down to yield the traditional core of vice or folly which is being dissimulated.
To think that an intellectually authoritative perspective will soon - or ever - emerge from which these profound differences will indeed be reconciled is folly.
I wrote a couple of indignant articles trying to explain the folly and announcing doomsday.
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