Irrelevant Quotes
375 quotes by 324 authors
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Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered,…
— Vernor Vinge
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Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the…
— Ellen Lupton
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what…
— Leon Edel
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Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the…
— Henri Poincare
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Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great
— Chris Van Allsburg
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The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are…
— Alvin Plantinga
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The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator…
— Michael Crichton
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I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on…
— Clive Anderson
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Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to…
— David Malouf
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In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even…
— Paul Farmer
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WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS.
— St. Germain
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In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community. Now that eradication…
— Sheila Kitzinger
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The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as…
— Paul Davies
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There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard-…
— Unknown Author
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
— Adyashanti
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Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic and…
— Steve Albini
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One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives…
— John Silber
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Always make a note of what you are doing and where it leads. By and by, you will become aware of that which is ego…
— Rajneesh
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Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for the society; your…
— Rajneesh
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If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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