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• The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.

  Robert Trivers

  Oddities, Atheism, Stones

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• There's so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love. People try to say to me, 'I just heard someone say this or that about you,' and I just ignore it because it's irrelevant. Love is what makes the world go around, and that's all we need to focus on.

  Miley Cyrus

  Love Is, People, Focus

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• People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Jobs, Thinking, Play

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• The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Creativity, Technology, Quality

  Sulak Sivaraksa (1992). “Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society”

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• I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

  Laura Marling

  Confused, Knowing, Age

  "Laura Marling: 'I increasingly feel like age is irrelevant'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• There are many times in my life, when I could've thrown in the towel. Many times in my life when I was on the floor. And when you're on the floor, never allow anybody to pick you up. It doesn't matter how long you stay there, make sure you pick yourself up and dust yourself down. Whatever happens, whether you go home today or you don't go home today, that's irrelevant. What's relevant, is you take the knowledge from the experience and you grow as a person.

  Marco Pierre White

  Home, Dust, Long

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• In Democrats minds they've done it before. They got rid of Richard Nixon and they rendered George W. Bush irrelevant. They think they can do it. The thing that they don't understand is Donald Trump is not Nixon, and he is not George W. Bush. And he is not a traditional politician affected by these kinds of assaults the way most politicians are.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Mind, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Prayer, Devil, Start The Day

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2014

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• When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who has learned to rejoice in the good fortune of others experiences only happiness. Seeing another person's beautiful house or attractive partner immediately makes him happy - the fact that they are not his own is irrelevant.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Beautiful, Jealous, Heart

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• The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

  Robert Fripp

  Musician, Rewards, Privilege

  "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.

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• Committing to a level you'll never attain may sound ridiculous, and it is. It's a form of insanity -- something also known as life. Everything moves forward or dies. Whether or not you actually move forward is irrelevant. What matters is that you never stop trying.

  Marc Parent

  Moving, What Matters, Insanity

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• Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.

  Brennan Manning

  Past, Evil, Done

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.34, Multnomah

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• My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

  Marlene Dumas

  Confusion, Erotic, Information

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• If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent on Him.

  Edward T Welch

  Heart, Thinking, Essence

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• Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.

  Peter Shepherd

  Spiritual, Motivation, Creativity

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• There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Views, Style

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• The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Self, Leader

  "In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1989.

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• A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

  Alan Perlis

  Attention, Levels, Language

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.

  Germaine Greer

  Thinking, Opposites, Ideas

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• No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Optimistic, Done

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• Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.

  Rick Warren

  Focus, Unrealistic Expectations, Problem

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.143, Zondervan

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• Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Powerful, Buddhism, Mindfulness

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• If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Church

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.103, Beacon Press

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• Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

  Michael Shermer

  Motivational, Stories, Morality

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.111, Henry Holt and Company

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• An absolute being would be irrelevant to the world, as it couldn't create it. Any action, or causal process that would involve them, would make them relational. An absolute is the opposite of relative. So that's easy to understand, however, even though we understand that intellectually, which is very important to do, you don't transform yourself completely, yet.

  Robert Thurman

  Opposites, Important, Would Be

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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