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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
You
Believe
Those
Atrocities
Absurd
Make
Commit
Who
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
Whatever
Evidence
Has-Been
Fact
Absurd
Opinion
Been
Held
Utterly
Widely
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes
Success
Impossible
Must
Attain
Attempt
Absurd
Order
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.
Robin Williams
Me
You
Anger
Yourself
Comedy
Hypocrisy
Starts
Side
Everywhere
Out
Kind
Darker
See
Outraged
Cruel
Absurd
Because
Within
Exists
Maybe
Where
Then
Sculpt
Explosion
Even
Deeper
Hardest
Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.
Robert Webb
Men
Girl
Gender
Feminism
Distinctions
Carry
Hating
About
Adult
Absurd
Learn
Boy
Boys And Girls
Childhood
Lives
Challenging
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus
Truth
First
Absurd
Concept
Essential
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley
War
Men
Cold
Monstrous
About
Absurd
Another
Quarrel
Blood
Trained
Personal
Should
Who
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza
Nature
Absurd
Contrary
Whatsoever
Reason
Think of Donald Trump's personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics. We have long referred to him as 'The Donald.' He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn't because he had attributes we admired.
Mitt Romney
Bullying
Long
Before
Greed
Think
Added
Admired
Only
Had
He
Absurd
Name
Qualities
Him
Attributes
Because
His
Referred
Trump
Off
Article
Person
America
Donald
Personal
Showing
Whom
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom
Thought
Men
Freedom Of Speech
Those
Liberties
Never
Absurd
Demand
How
Use
Speech
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher
Me
Impossible
Achieve
Will
Think
Those
Only
Attempt
Absurd
Check
Go
Upstairs
Who
Basement
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
Women
Mind
Men
Men And Women
Country
Half
Practice
Nothing
State
Our
Following
Prevails
More
Pursuits
Instead
Absurd
Thus
Reduced
Than
Same
Being
Whole
Strengths
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler
Wisdom
Age
Tomorrow
Become
Yesterday
Philosophies
Foolishness
Absurd
Next
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Would
Generalizations
Lead
Study
Absurd
Also
Undertaken
Prisons
Were
Human
Psychology
Certain
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
John Chrysostom
Divine
Highest
Absurd
Concepts
Itself
Trusts
Human
Substitutes
Poor
Reason
Strangest
Human Reason
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P. T. Barnum
Silly
Absurd
Most
Witchcraft
Disgusting
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine
Religion
See
Blasphemy
Absurd
New
Call
Revealed
Testament
Contradictions
New Testament
Species
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
David Lynch
Life
You
Man
Ignorance
Humor
Saw
Laugh
Would
Running
Struggling
He
Absurd
Absurdity
Like
Most
Until
Make
Because
Becomes
Repeatedly
Bloody
Wall
After
While
Pulp
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Albert Camus
Man
Together
World
Absurd
Links
Depends
Them
Much
Moment
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Luc de Clapiers
Success
Sometimes
Extraordinary
Reckless
Absurd
Most
Led
Aspirations
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
Wendell Berry
Food
Absurd
Clearly
Interested
Production
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Funny
Time
You
Ego
Down
Extraordinarily
See
Absurd
Tragic
Same
Same Time
Upside
Upside Down
Things
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
Alice Walker
War
Terrorism
Country
Think
Absurd
Terror
Coming
Really
Founded
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
Life
First
Absurd
Most
Sound
Hearing
Truths
Basic
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
Franklin Pierce
Complete
Attempting
Absurd
Idea
Parties
Anomaly
Without
Exist
Governments
Histories
Republic
Show
Popular
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. Rowling
Secretly
Ourselves
Out
More
Absurd
Make
Than
Little
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