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• There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge And Power, Government, Majority

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• Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

  Bodhidharma

  Nature, Practice, Causes

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.17, North Point Press

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• Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Thinking, Demise

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Regret, Grief

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Lying, Bullshit, Enemy

  Harry G. Frankfurt (2009). “On Bullshit”, Princeton University Press

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• REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Popular Vote, Law

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.195, University of Georgia Press

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• I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

  Dane Cook

  Smell, Bullshit, Miles

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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• People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone.

  Megan Fox

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Hate

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• I got this bad allergy - I'm allergic to bullshit.

  Jim Cornette

  Wrestling, Bullshit, Allergies

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• The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Men, Brave

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

  C. S. Lewis

  Joy, Common, Distinction

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Simple, Tolerance, Halos

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Omnipotence, Miracle

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Fall

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

  E. M. Forster

  Beauty, Connections, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.223, Delphi Classics

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• Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspiration, Matter, Triviality

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• The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

  Carl Jung

  Thoughtful, House, Mind

  "Beyond the Visible: Uniting Science and Religion". Book by Issa Gammoh, p. 23, February 13, 2014.

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• Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Brain

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• Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Light, Shade, Effects

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• There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

  Joseph Addison

  School, Profound, Depth

  Joseph Addison (1853). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.624

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• The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Use

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• The market for nonsense is infinite.

  James Randi

  Atheist, Infinite

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• Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

  Sydney Smith

  Faces, Tyranny, Mankind

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.376

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• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Mean, Blow

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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.

  Francis Crick

  Numbers, Lows, Triplet

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