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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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• To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

  Ernst Mach

  Laughter, Science, Soul

  Ernst Mach (2014). “History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Weakness, Tasks

  "The New Realities".

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• I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Believe, Teaching, School

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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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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• 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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• The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from individual experiences; the statement means that rubbing wood in this way will always produce fire. The art of discovery is therefore the art of correct generalization. ... The separation of relevant from irrelevant factors is the beginning of knowledge.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Art, Knowledge, Mean

  Hans Reichenbach (1973). “The Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

  Edward Goldsmith

  Nature, Real, Animal

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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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• More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

  Dick Morris

  Politics, Misguided, Democrat

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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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• Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

  Nick Cave

  Inspiration, People, Office

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• Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Efficiency, Productivity

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.155, Routledge

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• A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity and inter-connectedness of the nature of modern existence, then we will gradually notice a change in our outlook, so that when we say 'others' and when we think of others, we will no longer dismiss them as something that is irrelevant to us. We will no longer feel indifferent.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

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• One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

  Paul Tillich

  Strong, Love Is, Emotional

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• A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Shadow, Pieces

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• I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess many people would change after a nomination in the way they see things. In my case it's really irrelevant in terms of what I do. Still, it was an incredible experience which I will put in my memories, like everything else.

  River Phoenix

  Memories, People, Mind

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

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• Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Jesus, Fall

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• Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.

  Henri Matisse

  Color

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• Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).

  Susan Jeffers

  Pain, Real, Position Of Power

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