The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification, " to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
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Edwin Markham
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
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Douglas Adams
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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G.k. Chesterton
Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
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Dorothy Parker
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Ambrose Bierce
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