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You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues. — Unknown Author
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. — C.S. Lewis
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. — Jim Harrison
But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about. — Patrick Rothfuss
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny… — Edward Gorey
Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense. — Byron Dorgan
People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense. — Tracy Kidder
But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this… — Kurt Vonnegut
'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.' — Douglas Adams
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense. — Frederic Chopin
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any… — Arthur Machen
Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself. — Doc Holliday
If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got… — Lawrence Bossidy
The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be… — Edward Weston
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham
Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense. — Unknown Author
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. — Catharine MacKinnon
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey! — Zachary Taylor
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. — Gunter Grass
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told… — Martin Gardner
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. — Bill Haywood
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is… — H. L. Mencken
The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic… — Fred Hoyle

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