What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.
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Related We aren't doing any more residential surveying. There's no more money for tree removal, so it doesn'... MARK FAGAN At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of... VIGGO MORTENSEN Sometimes, humor makes more sense than reasoning. TOBA BETA There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense. JOHN BUCHANAN ROBINSON Now, it has to be about more than hoping to make plays. John has to go out there and plan to make pl... BRANDON DOMAN Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. DAVID DEUTSCH Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global comp... ROBERT REICH Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre... RENE DESCARTES Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre... DESCARTES Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre... RENE DESCARTES It makes sense to me. I forget my wallet more than I forget my cell phone. GREGORY PRESCOTT There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. BILL GATES Trying to make sense of what makes no sense can render you senseless. Let it go. SANJO JENDAYI This agreement makes sense for Guidant shareholders and employees. It amplifies the opportunity for ... JAMES CORNELIUS What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the ... STEVEN PINKER So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each ot... DAN SAVAGE In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the pr... ANDREI TARKOVSKY Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is m... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-... RICHARD DAWKINS This is a tragedy and would be on any day, but its occurrence on Christmas Day only seems to highlig... DAVID ROHRER The state has two levels of funding because it makes sense. The district's decision makes no sense. BETH SMITH Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - ... MARK STEYN Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is ... DANIEL BARENBOIM It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarce... BERNIE SANDERS The smallest act of kindness makes you more beautiful than any expensive dress or make up. DEBASISH MRIDHA The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way... SCOTT MCNEALY There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. 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JULIE TEER Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of... NENEH CHERRY It didn't make sense that a veteran officer is going to steal $800 in the presence of two brother of... GARY MILES Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no... MARCUS AURELIUS Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. AN WANG Our preliminary reports make us believe that it makes more sense to demolish at this time. LORI MOON It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. MARK TWAIN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. WILLIAM HAZLITT Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819 PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE I personally don't need a spring break. However, it makes more sense to have it in the middle. I thi... DENNIS KORN It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its econ... LEE R. RAYMOND a sense of loss more than anything -- because it was magical. DAVID RUBIN It does make sense to say that it's more likely, thank God, to have a natural disaster than a terror... CLARK KENT ERVIN We don't think it was any more than two or three days. CAPT. JON FROOMIN The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatso... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatso... LORD BYRON So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the vis... AUBREY GILBERT I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diver... LARRY HAGMAN For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pit... RACHEL CARSON I know I'm not a buff dude in any sense, but I'm more than comfortable with my body. BRENDON URIE There is no more anti-Semitism on the state level, as we saw in Soviet times, but instead we have a ... YITZHAK KOGAN It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. MARK TWAIN Well, I certainly think it makes more sense than the music deal she announced to release CD's with S... GARY MCDANIEL Well, I certainly think it makes more sense than the music deal she announced to release CD's with S... GARY MCDANIEL When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. JOSH BILLINGS By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. HORACE WALPOLE No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia. REUVEN RIVLIN Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. RANSOM RIGGS It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many sto... ANNIE DILLARD Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor;... WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. The avant-garde makes more sense to me. JOHN CALE Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind. AMIT KALANTRI I didn't get the sense that they were covering him any more closely than they had covered him before... BARRY HAZEN The open-source collaborative development model, I believe, is built to succeed in the Internet age,... MICHAEL DELL It makes sense that there is no sense without God. EDITH SCHAEFFER It makes sense that there is no sense without God EDITH SCHAEFFER More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value ... JOHN BURROUGHS From a conceptual point of view it makes sense, given that the companies have worked together in the... DOUGLAS ARTHUR It makes a lot more sense for it to happen now. JUAN FERNANDEZ It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN We intend to re-invest this money. We intend to spend at or near the cap, less an adequate reserve f... BRIAN BURKE A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood. NORMAN DAVIES Women watch more television than men in general, ... So it kind of makes sense to come up with progr... SHARI ANNE BRILL As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard m... JEAN-MARIE LE PEN There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs... OSCAR WILDE Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense o... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense o... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. What seems to be Free or Cheap often costs more than what looks like Expensive THE NEWAGE FOUNDATION Ghetto living is more than just a feeling of confinement; it is a sense of suffocation too. SUSAN NATHAN Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatt... RICHARD STALLMAN Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one... SHANNON L. ALDER I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense. DANIEL OKRENT We think it makes constitutional sense and common sense to protect our children from exposure to sen... TOM DRESSLAR She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed... VINCENT CANBY Education, The less you think about it, the more it makes sense. ALFANSO DELAGHETTO There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. HENRY FIELDING Cole Sear: Some magic's real. THE SIXTH SENSE I have not discussed that with anybody in the organization, to this point, so where that came from I... THE SIXTH SENSE Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incr... JOHN BURNSIDE It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is patholo... BRONISLAW GEREMEK What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or he... HELEN KELLER No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect mor... 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