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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
Faith
Defined
Occurrence
Improbable
May
Illogical
Belief
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
Ben Carson
Home
People
Argument
Rational
Throw
Points
Names
Because
Around
Opponents
Hammering
Which
Illogical
Keep
Thinkers
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn
Life
Try
Fly
Will
Life Forms
Beauties
Catch
Return
Knows
Any
Haphazard
Whether
Which
Patterns
Forms
Them
Full
Who
Illogical
Ever
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
Stella Adler
Logical
Imagination
Way
One-Way
Push
Toward
Leap
Make
Always
Scientists
Reasonable
Illogical
Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.
Alec Baldwin
Me
You
People
Problem
Money
Conservatives
Everywhere
Powerless
Go
Want
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Them
Cut
Illogical
The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.
Antonya Nelson
Heart
Battle
Logical
Would
Would-Be
Head
Between
Most
Messy
Always
Efficient
Enduring
Illogical
Nearly
The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
Geoffrey Boycott
Success
Failure
Own
Cricket
Magic
Between
Score
Reflected
May
Often
Difference
Century
Illogical
It is illogical to play Wednesday, Saturday, and Tuesday.
Gonzalo Higuain
Wednesday
Tuesday
Illogical
Play
Saturday
Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?
Jason Schwartzman
You
Logic
Plus
Do You Know
Know
Equals
Mean
Illogical
Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.
John Griffin Carlisle
Enormous
Our
Revenues
Surplus
Oppressive
Illogical
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
Josh McDowell
Religion
Be True
Other
Say
All Religions
Religions
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Some
True
Sincere
Because
Opposed
Diametrically
Pathetic
Anyone
Cannot
Them
Each
Illogical
Beliefs
I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.
Kameron Hurley
Politics
War
Those
Seemed
More
Studied
Longer
Always
Been
Interested
Illogical
Things
American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
Michael Schudson
Approaches
Determine
Rely
Budgets
Advertiser
Advertising
American
Essentially
Illogical
Unfortunately, instead of standing up to Iran, the Obama administration is giving in to the Iranians' bizarre tantrums and illogical arguments.
Mike Pompeo
Giving
Argument
Bizarre
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Instead
Tantrums
Iran
Iranians
Up
Unfortunately
Standing
Standing Up
Illogical
I think I'm constantly surprised that adults can't deal with illogical things or thing that are weird or psychedelic. I've never really lost that.
Noel Fielding
Lost
Think
Constantly
Adult
Never
Weird
Deal
Surprised
Psychedelic
Really
Illogical
Thing
Things
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
Octavia E. Butler
Problem
Sometimes
Problems
Related
Horror
Genres
Fantasy
Illogical
Throughout my time working in restaurants, I developed an illogical dread of some basic kitchen tasks. None of them - picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat - were particularly difficult. But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean.
Samin Nosrat
Time
Difficult
Peeling
Scale
Dread
Restaurants
Some
My Time
Kitchen
Throughout
Developed
Picking
Particularly
Felt
None
Were
Tasks
Them
Required
Working
Ground
Meat
Chopping
Professional
Illogical
Garlic
Basic
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
Sargent Shriver
Attempts
Irrational
Justify
Racists
Prejudices
Illogical
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
Tess Gerritsen
Me
Heart
People
Think
Way
Understand
Trying
Fiction
Explain
Illogical
Why
Things
One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.
Tobin Bell
Character
You
Try
Become
Films
Way
Never
Make
Always
Doing
Been
Continuous
Any
Done
Going
Want
Anything
Break
Wants
Far
Sculpture
Connect
Series
Illogical
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
Richard Dawkins
Death
Fear
Think
I Think
About
Something
Although
Us
Many
Illogical
There's nothing illogical, it seems to me, about saying, 'I am going to care deeply about my work and my writing. I'm also going to care deeply about my family and my child.'
Martha Nussbaum
Work
Saying
Family
Me
Writing
I Am
Care
Nothing
About
Seems
Also
Am
Child
Going
Illogical
Deeply
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