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• Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

  Isaac Barrow

  Anecdotes, Kind, Poetry Is

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• Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Simple, Rights, Natural

  Anarchical Fallacies art. 2 (1816)

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• I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

  Gunter Grass

  Seductive, Found, Pathos

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• The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

  Michele Bachmann

  Hoaxes, Global Warming, Bigs

  "Elected Officials Deny Climate Science as Climate-Related Losses Grow" by Shawn Lawrence Otto, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.

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• If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Pace, Crowds

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Blue, Space, Bird

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• Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Ignorance, Fate, Hands

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• A goal without a method is nonsense.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Goal, Management, Method

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• To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

  Ayn Rand

  Nature, Doe, Demand

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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• Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Pennies, Jingles

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.90, Whitaker House

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• Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Thinking, Religion

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• ...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.

  George Albert Wells

  Reading, Writing, Science

  George Albert Wells (1991). “Belief and make-believe: critical reflections on the sources of credulity”, Open Court Pub Co

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• Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Truth, Lying, Heaven

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• Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
  Made still a blundering kind of melody;
  Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
  Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
  Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
  And in one word, heroically mad.

  John Dryden

  Knowing, Mad, Poetry

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.69

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• The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Teaching, Taken, Enemy

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• Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, Science, Simple

  A CertainWorld "Behaviorism" (1970)

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• This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease!
  Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Science, Men, Garden

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• Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

  Alfred Bester

  Entropy, Cents, Millions

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!

  Harlan Ellison

  Stars, War, Doctors

  "Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang". Book by Terrance Dicks. Introduction, p. 7, 1977.

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• As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Urban Renewal, Years

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.13, Vintage

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• The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

  Kathy Acker

  Unbearable, Reactions

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

  John Dos Passos

  Peace, Cancer, Lying

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

  Ernest Chapman

  Wise, Believe, Two

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• Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that American is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair -- because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work -- they never have.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Self, People

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