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• ...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Long, Window

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• Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

  Albert Einstein

  Seems

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• There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

  Sepp Blatter

  Fifa, Systematic, Corruption

  "Sepp Blatter attacks English 'arrogance' after World Cup 2018 failure" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.

  T. H. White

  Mean, Cutting, People

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.218, Penguin

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• It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because it doesn’t just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.

  Phil Plait

  Reality, Long, Disregard

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• For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, People, Important

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• SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

  Eric Butterworth

  Self, Sin, Self Inflicted

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• [T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Yesterday, New Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. 1848 - 1855”

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• The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

  Joost Meerloo

  Lying, War, Emotional

  Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo (2015). “The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing”, p.117, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Holocaust, Wonder, Given

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• Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

  Epictetus

  Confidence, Creative, Requirements

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• Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hard Work, Men, Light

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• Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Mistake, Writing, Two

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• To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense

  Morton Blackwell

  Party, People, Political

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• To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Enemy, Done

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.48, Manonmani Publishers

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• In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Library, Twenties, Example

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Dirt

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• From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Generations, Aging, Young

  Cakes and Ale ch. 11 (1930)

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• As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

  Keith Olbermann

  Good Night, War, Party

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• Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

  Georg Solti

  Wagner, Specialists, Ifs

  "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.

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• I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.

  Arnold Newman

  Men, Sometimes, He Man

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• I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Shoes, Eccentric, Charming

  "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Mean, Animal

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• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

  Tavis Smiley

  Ideas, America, Firsts

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• You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song that moves people is worth more than all the other nonsense. (Just look at Bob Dylan - he's got almost no vocal range at all, but his songs are deeply moving and iconic.) If I had to offer one piece of advice: Write a song that moves people, and write it from within yourself. Your personal narrative is more engaging and moving than anything else you can imagine in your mind.

  Ryan Ross

  Song, Moving, Writing

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