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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.


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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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ALICE COOPER Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
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DONALD MORGAN For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book ...
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STEPHEN HARPER A belief is an opinion, a religion is a belief, and an opinion is a right.
YAHYA MOHAMUD The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
GEORGE ORWELL The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, i...
ISAAC NEWTON If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtu...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
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• Give new ideas and images a chance.
• Understand...
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MARLEE MATLIN Leave me to my own absurdity.
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RODRIGO DUTERTE An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.
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NICK HARKAWAY Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to co...
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ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE Your own opinion about something or someone is your companion until you find a better opinion.
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MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
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DAVE GROHL If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masc...
TONY CAMPOLO Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statem...
DARREN CRISS It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent...
DAVE EGGERS Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of thi...
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MARTIN VILLENEUVE If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it w...
BILL GOLDBERG A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the ot...
MARCEL PROUST I think it's just a statement of fact. I agree with it. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. ...
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DAVID MAMET Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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NIKKI HALEY You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it'...
DANNY ELFMAN Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
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SENECA A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
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REV CECIL WILLIAMS I wear heels, and it's not for a fashion statement - it's ammunition.
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AMBROSE BIERCE We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in a...
CLARK M. CLIFFORD An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred ...
JOSEPH ADDISON An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarre...
JOSEPH ADDISON An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarre...
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JESSYE NORMAN One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up t...
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ALBERT CAMUS Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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EMILY MAGUIRE Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the thing...
BRIE LARSON I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
CARA DELEVINGNE Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
CESAR CHAVEZ Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE the shit is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S
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ALEX TURNER By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. ...
MARK HADDON It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
JESSICA SAVITCH No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
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AMBROSE BIERCE Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction ...
AMBROSE BIERCE The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
AMBROSE BIERCE TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeab...
AMBROSE BIERCE Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
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