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• Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.

  William Poundstone

  Shannon, Radical, Insight

  "Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street". Book by William Poundstone, 2005.

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• Jonathan Meese is not interested in the history of reality. Everything radical and precisely graphic is sustainable. Human ideologies like religions and politics are based on the past and therefore irrelevant to art. Art always transforms radicalism of the past into the future. Art is always the total time machine. Jonathan Meese is interested in the history of the future. Art is never nostalgic.

  Jonathan Meese

  Art, Past, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Stupid, Fighting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

  Toni Morrison

  Home, Thinking, Space

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• The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, "Does God exist?" It's irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other's explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses.

  Norman Cota

  Powerful, Unity, Doe

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• Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Book, Beer, Names

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

  Bradley Denton

  Truth Is, Situation

  "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". Book by Bradley Denton, 1991.

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• In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Powerful, Expression, Violence

  "bstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, 1990.

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• Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

  Bill Ackman

  Assessment, Needs, Errands

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• The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

  Mark Galli

  Doe, News, Belief

  Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.122, Baker Books

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• On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.

  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

  School, Science, Men

  "oulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-century France" by C. Stewart Gillmor, Princeton University Press, (pp. 255-261), 1971.

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• Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

  Desmond Tutu

  Israel, Racism, Looks

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• I find that when one has worked long enough, technical know-how becomes almost irrelevant. In photography, it's not difficult to reach a technical level where you don't need to think about the technique any more. I think there is far too much literature and far too much emphasis upon the techniques of photography. The make of camera and type of film we happen to use has little bearing on the results.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Brooks Jensen, www.michaelkenna.net. October 2003.

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• Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Country, Suffering, Troops

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• There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

  Vaclav Havel

  Art, Ideas, Political

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

  Roz Savage

  Ocean, Psychology, Important

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• I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.

  Esai Morales

  Hate, Love Is, The End Of The Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

  Elena Kagan

  Jobs, Knows, Values

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• American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.

  Gilad Atzmon

  Zion, World, Debate

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• It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Important, Important Things

  "Kathryn Bigelow discusses role of "seductive violence" in her films". Interview with Michelle P. Perry, tech.mit.edu. March 16, 1990.

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• The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

  Azar Nafisi

  Attitude, Passion, Land

  Azar Nafisi (2014). “The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books”, p.20, Penguin

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• As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question of what we should worry about is irrelevant in the end.

  Bruce Hood

  Thinking, Worry, Ends

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• A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

  A.M. Homes

  Thinking, Talking, People

  A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.179, Granta Books

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• After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.

  Irving Kristol

  Art, Believe, Book

  New York Times Magazine, March 28, 1971.

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• Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Skills, Becoming

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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