The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
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People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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I think I was so grateful, in the years after Sleater-Kinney broke up or went on hiatus or whatever you want to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Shamanism has a long history and exists to this day because of its ties to universal emotions such as happiness, sorrow, resentment,… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there… — William Osler Copy Share Image
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Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
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![“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing. [Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777]” quote by Frederick the Great](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9a1/frederick-the-great-8525_absurdity_as-to-your-newton-i-confess-i-do-not-und_1077457.jpg)
