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Carl: Let's make litter outta these literati!
Lenny: That's too clever. You're one of them!

"Our kids think they're smarter than us. My son, he's twelve and he thinks he's too smart to work in the fields. Too smart for his own good, I tell him. But I know how to knock sense into him."

"Pol Pot. He rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming."

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