Sentences with phrase «far dumber things»

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Cf. Lewis's remarks in «The Weight of Glory»: «The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them; it was not in them, it only came through them and what came through them was longing, these things - the beauty, the memory of our own past - are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken far the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols.

It wasn't necessarily easy to go back that far; as Downey put it: «That's the dumb thing about history, if you're talking about something that has its origins more than 12 minutes ago, you're already coloring it with your ego and your story.»

At every turn, just at the exact moment you think things can't possibly go further off the rails — they do, in a whitewater - swift cascade of errors, goofs, foul - ups, bad luck, dumb luck, happy accidents and miraculous flukes.

«Law Fun entry includes lawyer jokes, a Lawkids section, and the Dumbest Things Ever Said in Court («How far apart were the vehicles at the time of collision?»).

Bridging courses and making things more culturally safe for students is so obvious, yet so unknown in the education area in general, and too often high schools keep our kids from achieving, by dumbing them down, assuming because they are aboriginal they will never get into further study.