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How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-ha...

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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an op...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Le stelle in cieloNon conoscono l'iraBla, bla, bla, fine

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly th...

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David HumeLetters of David Hume 2 vols

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not ha...

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I like nonsense it wakes up the brain cells.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense....

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Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on real...

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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

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Said by Colin the dragon:"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other h...

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BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.

There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning...

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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And ...

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Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly."I've had nothing yet," Alice repl...

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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

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Lewis CarrollThe Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition

Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant—so that he constantly call...

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Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophical Investigations

The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propo...

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...I would not engage the wombatIn any form of mortal combat.

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Ogden NashCustard and Company: Poems

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

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The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

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The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

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The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

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The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

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The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

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The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

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The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with gre...

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I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of soc...

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I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Rena...

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He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he i...

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This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a cr...

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Even if this is only nonsense and dreams, I feel the need to perpetuate it all. Especially at this m...

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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevanc...

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la méta...

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A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at leas...

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How do you know nonsense isn't a good thing? if human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for c...

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Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.