You are now entering a world filled to the brim with idiots. Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots.
Lewis Black
UC San Diego Thurgood Marshall College Commencement 2013, 2013
Video starts at 6:20 — the moment this quote was spoken
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Black delivered this warning with his trademark exasperation, then offered a crucial caveat: 'Whatever you do, don't tell the idiot that they are an idiot. There may come a day when you may need that idiot. Idiots may be idiots, but they do have a memory.' It was classic Lewis Black — the fury of the observation tempered by the pragmatism of the advice.
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