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• When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know, I gotta do this."

  Adam West

  Kids, Saws, Said

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

  Nick Hanauer

  Ideas, Employment, Wages

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

  James Frey

  Past, Echoes, Would Be

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Tactics, Violence

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.82, The New Press

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• And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

  Thomas Huxley

  People, Prove, Courses

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.246, University of Georgia Press

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• Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved.

  Zbigniew Jaworowski

  Country, Immunization, Cost

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• There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

  Albert Camus

  Art, War, Men

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• For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Matter, Indifference

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.94, Vintage

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• ...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

  Stephen Fry

  Games, People, Television

  Stephen Fry (2010). “Paperweight”, p.176, Random House

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• If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Art, Taken

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• I've always found it very difficult to understand the laws as far as nudity in America - how some things are pornographic and some things are not pornographic. It's against the law to go topless on the beach, but you can go buy a gun. That just seems so absurd to me.

  Elle Macpherson

  Beach, Gun, Law

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• Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

  Seymour Papert

  Computer, Classroom, Changed

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• People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

  Harvey Pekar

  Believe, People, Century

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• It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Intellectual, Use

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• A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Conscious, Bounds

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

  John Cage

  Finals, Answers, Courses

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

  Robert Towne

  Running, Team, Needs

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• It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

  Kristina Schroder

  Mean, Humanity, Survival

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Infinite, Certainty, Walking

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• Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

  Douglas Lain

  Dark, Sides, Fiction

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• Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Belief, Forget, Boast

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• How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Coffins, Nothing To Lose

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• The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Waiting, Tasks, Earth

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• The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Dream, Children, Crazy

  "Toys of tomorrow" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. March 1, 1998.

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• The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money that the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Thinking, Government, People

  "Speaking of Liberty". Book by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, 2003.

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