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absurdity
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. Baruch Spinoza
absurdity champion defend error talkative
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith
absurdity came joke life lives order smell
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place. Kurt Braunohler
absurdity bearded food funny laugh mall mask men puts roller slowly
Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. T. J. Miller
absurdity cliches flow linguistic musical novels plays reveal voices zeal
was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power. Elfriede Jelinek
clearly contrary damaged dire falling last mechanisms natural popular preserved regions repair research selection sky
Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes. David Page
clearly expecting force gone ingredient material presume since stock took work
Since he took over, the stock has gone up 25 percent, so clearly the market...appears to be expecting material cost-cutting, of which I would presume a significant ingredient would be work force reduction.
clearly concerns consequences expressed focused result
He is focused right now on transportation, but he has pretty clearly expressed some concerns about the unintended consequences that could result from this proposal. Kevin Hall
clearly mental physical position
He is clearly in a better physical and mental position than he was when he started.
clearly economy improving rates rising spending
Rising rates clearly amplifies that the economy is improving and that there should be more spending on technology. We don't take that as a negative. John Rutledge
clearly dwight robert shadow
Robert will always be in the shadow of Dwight because Dwight is clearly a difference-maker. But he's not like a mini-Dwight, he's like another Dwight. David Thornton
clearly life research treatment
Rigorous, published, peer-reviewed research clearly demonstrates that treatment works. Medications can be an important and even life-saving part of a comprehensive and individualized treatment plan. Brooke Shields
clearly committed license review
(Roger Mayweather) clearly committed a foul, that's why he's suspended. We could revoke his license temporarily; we could revoke it permanently. That's why we want to review the tapes.
clearly democrats elections good looks today
Republicans are clearly on the ropes. Today it looks good for the Democrats - but the elections are in November.
numbers members stupidest
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members. Robert A. Heinlein
numbers diversity goal
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. Vernon Jordan
numbers political way
You can register a political objection in a number of ways. Nicholson Baker
numbers giving done
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money. Henri Cartier-Bresson
numbers donkey score
It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores. Will Forte
numbers atheism gains
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. Mary Wollstonecraft
numbers water elements
Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water.... Mary Hunter Austin
numbers names actors
I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in. Mark Hamill
numbers hands used
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. Oswald Chambers
people realistic year
Some people would say we're being overly-conservative. But I say we're being realistic for our first year planning.
people quiet rather wrong
Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.
people tolerant
Some people will not be tolerant about this.
people types
Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.
people ran
Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.
people watched
Some people watched the show just because of the wardrobe, ... That's exciting. Michelle Lombardo
people
Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons. Tracey Emin
people restaurant size
Some people told us not to put the restaurant in Ceresco because of the size and location. But that's really why we're doing this. There's nothing here.
people save threatened
Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.
practice
While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,
practice kind solemnity
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity. Theaster Gates
practice perfect practice-makes-perfect
Perfect practice makes perfect. Twyla Tharp
practice
I just need some reps. We haven't had much practice time. Chauncey Billups
practice matter abandoned
He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve. Kelley Armstrong
practice perfect nobodys-perfect
Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice? Kurt Cobain
practice community humanity
No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women. Manmohan Singh
practice matter birth
Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else. Malcolm Wallop
practice differences america
They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery. Malcolm X
religious lying moving
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. Bobby Fischer
religious grateful practice
Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us. Dan Brown
religious religion orthodox
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke. Ambrose Bierce
religious years lds
Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free. Thomas S. Monson
religious leader vision
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened. Thomas Sowell
religious struggle night
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn. Robert Musil
religious freedom religion
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. Samuel Adams
religious space diversity
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity. Tariq Ramadan
religious atheist roots
The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these.