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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic… — Peter Sagan Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
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To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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When I pick a story, I'm very much aware of the larger issues that it's illuminating. But one of the things that… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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“At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span-high statue of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour"… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you come from within the industry, you are better prepared for the industry. For example, you see your family deal with… — Arjun Kapoor Copy Share Image
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing,… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
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