"First... a new theory is attacked as absurd;……" — William James

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• It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to… — Honore de Balzac
• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
• To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
• Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
• Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
• When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help… — David Byrne
• My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
• The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
• I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
• The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them… — Albert Camus
• In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes

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