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title: "Great Nonsense Quotations"
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> [Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-l-amour/often-i-hear-people-say-they-do-not-have-time-to-read-that-s-absolute/)

[Louis L'Amour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-l-amour/)

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> [ No more harmful nonsense exists than \[the\] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/no-more-harmful-nonsense-exists-than-the-common-supposition-that/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-m-schwab/most-talk-about-super-geniuses-is-nonsense-i-have-found-that-when/)

[Charles M. Schwab](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-m-schwab/)

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> [When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vidal-sassoon/when-the-doubters-tell-you-it-can-t-be-done-and-all-kind-of-tragedies/)

[Vidal Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vidal-sassoon/)

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> [After I saw how badly animals were treated to en up in our plates, how bad it was for our health and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-laraque/after-i-saw-how-badly-animals-were-treated-to-en-up-in-our-plates-how/)

[Georges Laraque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-laraque/)

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> [Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-postman/through-the-computer-the-heralds-say-we-will-make-education-better/)

[Neil Postman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-postman/)

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> [There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-fellowes/there-isn-t-much-point-in-the-whole-celebrity-nonsense-unless-one-is/)

[Julian Fellowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-fellowes/)

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> [When we started reading books to Raffi, I included some Russian ones. A friend had handed down a beautiful book of Daniil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/when-we-started-reading-books-to-raffi-i-included-some-russian-ones-a/)

[Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/)

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> [“Said by Colin the dragon: "It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasper-fforde/said-by-colin-the-dragon-it-s-somewhat-bizarre-to-learn-that-many-of/)

[Jasper Fforde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasper-fforde/)

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> [The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/the-people-of-ankh-morpork-had-a-straightforward-no-nonsense-approach/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/liberals-have-created-and-the-minority-leadership-has-exploited-a/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-zacharias/all-religions-plainly-and-simply-cannot-be-true-some-beliefs-are/)

[Ravi Zacharias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ravi-zacharias/)

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> [The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/the-concept-of-momism-is-male-nonsense-it-is-the-refuge-of-a-man/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

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> [There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/there-is-in-our-day-a-powerful-antidote-to-nonsense-which-hardly/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [“But there is no sole person for another's heart. Souls cannot be broken and then completed by another. That's not healthy, nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leanna-renee-hieber/but-there-is-no-sole-person-for-another-s-heart-souls-cannot-be/)

[Leanna Renee Hieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leanna-renee-hieber/)

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> [“I'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lemony-snicket/i-m-afraid-it-s-not-nonsense-genghis-said-shaking-his-turbaned-head/)

[Lemony Snicket](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lemony-snicket/)

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> [At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/at-the-heart-of-science-is-an-essential-balance-between-two-seemingly/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [ Jean \[Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister\] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-matthews/jean-kennedy-smith-jfk-s-sister-told-me-she-thinks-the-whole-sports/)

[Chris Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-matthews/)

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> [The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-bardon/the-idea-that-by-eating-the-meat-of-an-animal-the-animal-powers-or/)

[Franz Bardon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-bardon/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-h-auden/of-course-behaviourism-works-so-does-torture-give-me-a-no-nonsense/)

[W. H. Auden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-h-auden/)

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> [Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/prescribing-hard-work-for-the-soft-or-easy-work-for-the-hardy-is/)

[Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/)

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> [I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ike-barinholtz/i-m-more-scared-of-parking-by-a-parking-meter-than-vampires-because/)

[Ike Barinholtz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ike-barinholtz/)

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> [Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-foley/employees-hate-meetings-because-they-reveal-that-self-promotion/)

[Michael Foley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-foley/)

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> [I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grover-norquist/i-run-a-taxpayer-group-the-most-powerful-guy-in-d-c-nonsense-ok-there/)

[Grover Norquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grover-norquist/)

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> [My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-baker/my-capacity-as-a-monk-was-to-passionately-believe-utter-nonsense-and/)

[Tom Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-baker/)

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> [Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/where-there-is-happiness-there-is-found-pleasure-in-nonsense-the/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/i-have-come-to-see-the-nonsense-of-attempting-to-describe-fine/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-bishop/if-little-fish-get-eaten-by-bigger-fish-and-bigger-fish-get-eaten-by/)

[Tony Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-bishop/)

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> [Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/perhaps-he-had-to-be-close-in-order-to-keep-a-reason-for-the-things/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

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> [I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/queen-latifah/i-d-say-if-you-want-to-be-an-artist-start-with-your-art-start-with/)

[Queen Latifah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/queen-latifah/)

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> [One of the reasons Britain escaped the poisonous nonsense of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia is the sheer, absolute, middle-of-the-road, tedious banality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-starkey/one-of-the-reasons-britain-escaped-the-poisonous-nonsense-of-nazi/)

[David Starkey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-starkey/)

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> [You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-reilly/you-were-there-all-day-long-12-hours-a-day-so-there-was-none-of-this/)

[John C. Reilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-reilly/)

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> [It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/it-is-precisely-because-it-is-fashionable-for-americans-to-know-no/)

[Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/)

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> [Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-banks/any-such-inklings-were-like-a-few-scattered-grains-of-truth-dissolved/)

[Iain Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-banks/)

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> [We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-hobb/we-are-as-we-are-how-can-you-claim-to-know-what-life-i-was-meant-to/)

[Robin Hobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-hobb/)

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> [To the extent that the academy is producing people who are talking utter nonsense, and imagining that it is sophisticated and enlightened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/to-the-extent-that-the-academy-is-producing-people-who-are-talking/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

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> [And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/and-one-more-thing-you-still-believe-that-man-can-be-good-if-that/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [“When people get into their 30s plus "boyfriend" sounds weird...if you really think about it. Instead, I think we should universally start…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-m-pillow/when-people-get-into-their-30s-plus-boyfriend-sounds-weird-if-you/)

[Michelle M. Pillow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-m-pillow/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dryden/doeg-though-without-knowing-how-or-why-made-still-a-blundering-kind/)

[John Dryden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dryden/)

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> [I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-carroll/i-m-very-much-afraid-i-didn-t-mean-anything-but-nonsense-still-you/)

[Lewis Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-carroll/)

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                        "text": "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.",
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