Irrelevant Quotes

• Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

  Margaret Cho

  Beauty, Beautiful, Badass

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• Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

  Joan Collins

  Funny, Birthday, Wine

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• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Philosophy, Irrelevance

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.213, University of Illinois Press

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• Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

  Ann Coulter

  Differences, America, Self

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.28, Crown Forum

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• No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Saws, Feels

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

  Manfred Eigen

  Math, Science, Technology

  The Physicist's Conception of Nature edited by Jagdish Mehra (p. 618)

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• When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.

  Mooji

  Powerful, Belief, Certain

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• Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to watch television or go to the movies, nor will he eventually read Book-of-the-Month Club selections, because they are ludicrous and dull. As a young man, then, he will effectually be excluded from all of Madison Avenue and Hollywood and most of publishing, because what moves him or what he creates is quite irrelevant to what is going on: it is too fine. His father has brought him up as a dodo.

  Paul Goodman

  Children, Father, Moving

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.144, New York Review of Books

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• Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

  A. H. Almaas

  Spiritual, Careers, Understanding

  A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, Needs, Spoiled

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• Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

  Robert Ludlum

  Men, Gossip, Information

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.237, Bantam

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• Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Speed, Wrong Direction, Ifs

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• I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

  Paul Newman

  Inspiring, Kids, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Mean, Political

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin's Lecture at the California Institute of Technology, January 17, 2003.

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• The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.

  Alvin Plantinga

  Christian, Views, Perfect

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• Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Country, Adversity

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• When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.

  Lisa Unger

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.259, Crown

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• Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

  James Risen

  Fighting, Choices, Journalist

  "James Risen: Obama hates the press" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 6, 2014.

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• When people talk about imagination, they tend to think of fantasy or something made-up. But really imagination is a mode of perception. Which is maybe why so many artists have turned to the occult. Artists tend to feel like outsiders. Whether they are actually outsiders or not is also kind of irrelevant.

  Janaka Stucky

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Purpose, Action

  Twitter post from Mar 2, 2012

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• Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

  Neil Postman

  Mean, Creating, Knowing

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.93, Penguin

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• The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Church, Doe

  1963 Strength to Love.

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• Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1783, Random House

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• In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

  Michael Crichton

  Results, Relevant, Consensus

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003.

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• Above all, discard the irrelevant.

  Barbara Tuchman

  What Matters

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.17, Random House

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