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absurd american-journalist helpful people personal proof survival
People of sense will not take its absurd triviality as anything but helpful in contributing to the proof of the survival of personal identity. Oliver J. Lodge
absurd base figure looks seek
Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it. Tommy Caldwell
absurd judged people postal
Some people called postal privatization an absurd idea. But the people judged that it is the right idea, Junichiro Koizumi
absurd australian business lists madness nobel political problem trust
I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the list. It's absurd and completely unjustifiable. Their problem was they had to put an Australian on it. These lists are always so right-wing. It's like the Nobel prize, it is always 'people we can do business with'. Germaine Greer
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It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo, Robert Lantos
absurd behaving law nature prevent star
I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!
absurdity clear drinking kids learned loved pot realized
The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.' George Soros
absurdity clearly indulge numbers people practice religious
The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it Anatole France
absurd attention campaign desperate divert issues leadership matter merely photo smear
The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest. George Osborne
behaving feels general
I think he feels that he is in a crisis. He is behaving like a general in a battle.
behaving loudly
He (Clinton) is behaving too loudly on this -- too loudly Boris Yeltsin
behaving either funny men referred
For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.' Martin Clunes
behaving exactly
Kellogg, for a lot of years, was behaving exactly as Kraft is behaving now.
behaving behavior engaging ethical meet standards
He wasn't behaving up to standards that meet our ethical code. He was engaging in behavior that was unbecoming of an officer.
behaving market storm
If this storm wasn't out there, the market would probably be behaving much better.
behaving confidence contrary create found ireland law northern observed
He has got to create confidence ... in Northern Ireland that the law will be observed and will be enforced, and when republicans are found to be behaving in a way that is contrary to their undertakings, that he will act. David Trimble
behaving clinton flood frankly loudly planes
He is behaving too loudly on this -- too loudly ... Well, now (some are saying) let us flood it all with planes and bombs. No, frankly speaking, it is not like Clinton at all.
behaving exemplary himself likely offender type
He is not the type of offender likely to repeat. He's behaving himself and has been and exemplary inmate.
lawyers looking
Our lawyers are looking at it. We'll see if anything can be done.
lawrence ties
Some may have ties to Lawrence County, but most have not.
laws might parallel particle physical recipe region
Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region. Rudy Rucker
law firsts constitution
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it. B. R. Ambedkar
law eggshells denial
Denis Law could dance on eggshells. Bill Shankly
law keeping-promises kept-promises
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. Bill Cosby
law politics above-the-law
Live like the Kennedy's, above the law. Big Pun
law suits court
Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit Big Sean
law satanic satan
Bout to inhale like I'm finnin to see Satan. We're Satanic. It's the law.
nature people
Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
nature science technology
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
nature travel earth
"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
nature home intelligent
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place. Barry Lopez
nature-love consolation
A love of nature is a consolation against failure. Berthe Morisot
nature winter weather
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner
nature passion heart
The passion to explore is at the heart of being human. Carl Sagan
nature years moose
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. Bill Bryson
nature science past
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future). Benoit Mandelbrot
prevent priority
Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.
prevent thrown trying turns
I was just trying to prevent someone else from getting thrown out. It turns out I got thrown out. John McLaren
prevent primary terror war
The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening. Marco Rubio
prevent shut
To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. Gore Vidal
prevent shall war
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human. Ellen Key
prevent
We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.
prevent though women
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either. Ada Yonath
prevent war
It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war. Marianne Williamson
preventive regarding start zero
We have to start over from zero regarding preventive measures. Shoichi Nakagawa
start
Start the Day with Love;Spend the Day with Love;Fill the Day with Love;End the Day with Love;This is the way to God. Sathya Baba
starting
Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,
start
Man, that ain't even a thought for me, ... I can't get into that world. I've been around too long to start something like that up.
stars laughter flower
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.
stars flower love-is
What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.
stars businessman knows
How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.
stars men light
All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--
stars lying eye
When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.
stars ocean men
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.