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• There are twelve thousand horses, for one thing, to be shod, geared, kept roadworthy and regular; say six thousand country wagoners, thick-soled peasants: then, hanging to the skirts of these, in miscellaneous crazy vehicles and weak teams, equine and asinine, are one or two thousand sutler people, male and female, not of select quality, though on them, too, we keep a sharp eye. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• Such policies are not only asinine, they are — and here I have found another appropriate place for the buzz word of the decade — counterproductive: the energies expended on vengeance are entirely wasted and should be channeled to changing the present system to ensure that they are not continued. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2
• An asinine, human action is the one only an ass should commit, since ass ` animal known for its stupidity 'is based on Latin asinus ` ass.' —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 3
• Alternatively should I talk about Asin, the Latin root of the English word "asinine" whose hyper-animated innocent girl routine was so grating that I was cheering on Ghajini and his sledgehammer to put me out my misery? —  Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
• Unfortunately the run on the Ho-Pak's spilling over to other banks and that's very bad for Hong Kong and also, I think, bad for the People's Republic of China. " —  Noble House

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