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Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible. Alexandra Petri

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History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939. Alistair Horne

History Relevant Never Poland Reach Obvious Equally Repeats Tragically Might Meaningless Pessimists Czechoslovakia Extended Britain Guarantees

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts. Beppe Grillo

Concepts Left Meaningless Right

The criterion for racism is either objective or it's meaningless: If liberals get to decide for themselves who is or isn't a racist according to their political lights, conservatives will be within their rights to ignore them. Bret Stephens

Rights Racism Political Will Conservatives Liberals Criterion Objective Lights Within According Get Decide Either Them Themselves Meaningless Ignore Who

I've run into people who say, 'I know what you're like: You're a Boston guy.' That's so weird. This person who doesn't know anything about me thinks they know a lot because of the city I grew up in, which, to me, is a meaningless label. There are all kinds of people from Boston. Casey Affleck

Me You People Say Run City Kinds About Guy Boston Weird Like Know Because Lot Label Up Person Grew Anything Which Meaningless Who Thinks

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves. Charlie Kaufman

Love You Love Yourself Yourself Hate Will First Other Characters Telling Learn First Thing Insulting Condescending End The First Thing Movie To Love Themselves Meaningless Should Each Thing

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. David Rakoff

Art Good Passion Face Manners Nice Air Good Manners Admirable Cross Point Absolutely Over Like Global Art Form Erudition Dominant Form Interest Movies Century Meaningless Etiquette Moment Professing Deep Last Last Century

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much. Dennis Quaid

Golf Much Meaningless Means

If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show. Derren Brown

You Aim Sake End Up Very Controversial Meaningless Show Thin

No film should be meaningless. Dev Anand

Meaningless Should Film

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act. Edward Ball

Become Every Hundred Thousand Would Between Were Begin Quickly Families After Meaningless Act Apologizing Descendants Slaves

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless. Emilio Estevez

Our Our Lives Crap Meaningless Really Lives

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work. Eric S. Raymond

Work Creative Happy Words Other Bored General Also Efficiently In Other Words Happiest Preference Inappropriate Meaningless Working Creative Work Programmers

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. Frank Gehry

Sometimes Tool Marketing Claims Issues Been Green Meaningless Used

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today. Frederick Soddy

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me. Geoff Dyer

Music Me Seriously Reading Books Musical Way Minor About Compromised Major Understand Any Meaningless Theory Serious

I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy. H. Jon Benjamin

Myself Comedy Danger Putting Opposed Meaningless

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless. Harlan Coben

I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it. Jack Dorsey

World Mother Dinner Breakfast Lunch About Someone Percent She Am Loves Meaningless Useless Who Tweets

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. James Howard Kunstler

Day History People Walls Fog Changed State Everything Furniture Everywhere Eats About Except Through Come Like Come And Go House Looks Around Go Oratory Just Where Acid Moving Mankind Rooms Meaningless Lethargy Away Things Here

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel. James Lovelock

Sustainable Development Development So-Called Sustainable Meaningless

My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on. Jamie Wyeth

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A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless. Jane Goldman

Me People Phrase Underage Lot Which Meaningless Use Violence

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