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While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us.
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
2.
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
Jim Harrison
The hazard of modernity, of course, is that you will squander your life on trifles.
3.
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
Oscar Wilde
I relish discussing trivialities. It's the only subject I'm an expert in.
4.
Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.
John Lennox
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To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.
Lenny Bruce
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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
Warren Buffett
10.
People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!
Howard G. Hendricks
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The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.
Frederic Chopin
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Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.
Jason Statham
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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
Aristotle
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Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
Jeremy Bentham
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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
Stephen Jay Gould
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It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
Francis Crick
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You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.
Robert Adams
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I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
Manolo Blahnik
21.
I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.
Harmony Korine
22.
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
Edie Sedgwick
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I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
Johannes Kepler
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I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
Anthony Burgess
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
Vernon Howard
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It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.
Thomas Ligotti
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I don't have time for any nonsense.
DJ Khaled
30.
I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.
Steve McQueen
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. Somerset Maugham
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For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.
Wolfgang Pauli
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My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.
Daniil Kharms
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The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
C. S. Lewis
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Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.
Walter E. Williams
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.
Lewis Carroll
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Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.
Pope Francis
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Anthony Hopkins
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When theres ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, thats nonsense!', so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
Burt Rutan
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Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense.
Sunny
46.
That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
William Morris
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Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.
Elliott Erwitt
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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
Jane Austen
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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
Richard Dawkins
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Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.
Iain Banks