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• It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the… — Thomas de Quincey
• We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching… — Unknown Author
• The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse… — John Fowles
• Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. — Julio Cortazar
• I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is. — Glenn Greenwald
• The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet… — Margaret Thatcher
• To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred — Tina Brown
• QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily… — Ambrose Bierce
• Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate… — Jonathan Swift
• Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide… — Arno Allan Penzias
• Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. — Andy Hobsbawm

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