It's easy to be pessimistic because then we fool ourselves into thinking we don't need to do too much.
"Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" - Paul McCartney My first university boyfriend and I had to have music on whenever we fooled around, because the walls in my shitty residence hall were so thin you could hear the girl next door breathing.
Language Police 1, Gay Marriage 0. We eloped on April Fools' Day because we are both, in fact, fools.
Kudos to the Sterling Coopers of the wine industry, though, because we've all been fooled by them at least once.
The rest of us are knaves or fools because we have been sucked in by some devious corporate entity, and are providing a front for some nefarious public relations stunt".
And if this unelected bureaucracy succeeds in trampling underfoot our last vestiges of privacy and freedom, it will be because we let ourselves be fooled into believing that politics matters, that voting makes a difference, that politicians actually represent the citizenry, that the courts care about justice, and that everything that is being done is in our best interests.
"I have the duty, certainly as a historian, and even more as President, if elected, to tell our story to anyone who wants to listen — objectively, truthfully, because we will only suffer and fool ourselves if we do it any other way," Guðni said.
"But these farmers are fooling themselves, because we are not going to accept again a situation where the indigenous people of this country are denied land and just work for the whites," the official said.
"We're undoubtedly the UK North Sea oil capital, but we mustn't fool ourselves that because we've got critical mass in the North Sea, we will automatically graduate to become a major Eastern Hemisphere oil and gas capital.
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