Irrelevant Quotes
375 quotes by 324 authors
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You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a…
— Maurice Samuel
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A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they…
— A. H. Almaas
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My attitude was and still is like that of David, who was ashamed that the armies of Israel would tremble before Goliath. Without hesitation he…
— Dave Hunt
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Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself,…
— Unknown Author
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...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the…
— Unknown Author
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I think that's the reality of the business. It's not about what you did. It's what have you done for me lately. We're in the…
— Don Davis
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The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the…
— Robert Reich
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded…
— A. E. Housman
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Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem.…
— Rick Warren
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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality…
— Stanley Kubrick
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Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.
— David Ogilvy
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Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or…
— David Ogilvy
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The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring,
— Paul Wolfowitz
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Emotion without action is irrelevant.
— Jody Williams
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A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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A tidal wave of support for medicinal marijuana has begun in the western United States; the future of many federal officials depends, in large part,…
— Unknown Author
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I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no…
— Lynne Cheney
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If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender,…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds…
— Ben Shahn
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