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In the dance of randomness, even the half-glimpsed shadows surround language in allures; accidental poetry trails others' whims like soldiers blessed with Returning Ally
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Astrid Kwynsfell
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Idle thoughts are like clouds that shift across the sky of our minds; they may seem aimless, but in their wanderings, they paint vibrant landscapes of possibility.
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Abby Holloway
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Do bears wear dabble-ties while drizzling barbecue sauce on self-aware ponies during suddenly blitz attacks?
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Sally Johnson
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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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Andrew Young
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I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
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Rick Wright
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Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
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Earl Wilson
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The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.
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David Wells
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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
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Horace Walpole
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
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Jim Wallis
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I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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Mike Tyson
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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
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Anne Sullivan
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To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
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Gerrit Smith
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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George Shaw
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It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
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Anton Seidl
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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Otto Schily
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There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
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Arthur Scargill
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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
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George Santayana
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Author:
Carl Sagan
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You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.
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John Reilly
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Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
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John Ransom
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Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this.
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Akbar Rafsanjani
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Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
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Richard Pryor
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Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
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William Pitt
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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
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Evita Peron
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
Author:
Ted Nelson
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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
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George Nathan
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
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Vladimir Nabokov
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People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.
Author:
Gerry Mulligan
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It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.
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Angela Merkel
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The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
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John McGahern
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He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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John McCarthy
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I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
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George Mason
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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
Author:
Catharine MacKinnon
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It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
Author:
Arthur Machen
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
Author:
F. Lucas
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Author:
C. Lewis
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Author:
Charles Krauthammer
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People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
Author:
Tracy Kidder
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
Author:
Jean Kerr
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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Carl Jung
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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C. James
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
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Anthony Hopkins
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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Author:
Anthony Hecht
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That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
Author:
Jonathan Harris
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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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Augustus Hare
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Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Author:
Hugh Grant
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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
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Stephen Gould
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
Author:
Edmond Goncourt
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
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George Gallup
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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John Galbraith
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Author:
Northrop Frye
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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
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Robert Frost
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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E. Forster
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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George Eliot
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
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Richard Dawkins
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Author:
Robertson Davies
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No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.
Author:
Al D'Amato
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Author:
Roald Dahl
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It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
Author:
Francis Crick
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They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
Author:
George Combe
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
Author:
Alexander Cockburn
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
Author:
Karel Capek
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
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Benjamin Britten
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Author:
Ray Bradbury
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I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.
Author:
Jim Bolger
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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Bodhidharma
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Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.
Author:
Ron Bloom
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Author:
Warren Bennis
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Author:
Max Beerbohm
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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
Author:
Gregory Bateson
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My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
Author:
Josef Albers
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Author:
Joseph Addison
