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• It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

  John Yoo

  War, Asking, Terrorist

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• I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?

  Greg Gutfeld

  College, Smoking, Age

  Source: nation.foxnews.com

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• "Believe in yourself" - that makes sense. You should believe in yourself - you should believe that you're capable of great things - but you would hope that somebody would have some sort of self-awareness.

  Timothy Simons

  Believe, Self, Awareness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.

  N. T. Wright

  Art, Struggle, Justice

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• Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Needs, Wake Up

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.19, Anchor

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• It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Mean, Fighting, Numbers

  Mercedes Lackey (1991). “By the Sword”, p.158, Penguin

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• The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

  Christian Marclay

  Editing, Together, Pieces

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• I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

  Cory Monteith

  Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

  Hayley Mills

  Cancer, Way, One Way

  "'I felt I was dying': Hayley Mills on why she quit chemotherapy as she battled cancer". Interview with Nicola Methven, www.mirror.co.uk. December 26, 2012.

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• When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.

  Meg Medina

  Writing, Hands, Trying

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• In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.

  David Cage

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

  Poul Anderson

  Government, Organization, People

  Poul Anderson (2014). “The Avatar”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• The complex ways in which we produce and reproduce the world in technologically developed societies involves the ways in which we separate ourselves into public and private persons, producing and consuming persons and so on, and the ways in which we as people negotiate and cope with those divisions. Stars are about all that, and are one of the most significant ways we have for making sense of it all. That is why they matter to us, and why they are worth thinking about.

  Richard Dyer

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

  Francis Chan

  Punishment, Clay, Arrogant

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.88, David C Cook

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• Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Letting Go, Laughter

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• Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.

  Billy Eichner

  People

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• Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.

  Jordan Peele

  White, People, Mind

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• Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.

  Daniel Handler

  Sex, People, Risk

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• I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.

  Jane Goodall

  Who I Am, Perfect, Desire

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• If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Scotch, Knowing

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• As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people.

  George Clooney

  Careers, People, Focus

  "TOMORROWLAND: George Clooney, Damon Lindelof, and Brad Bird on the Boldness of Originality and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2015.

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• And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Law, People, Terrorist

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

  Kid Cudi

  Clouds, People, Hip Hop

  "Kid Cudi: Mad Man On The Moon". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. September 17, 2010.

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• You either make sense or you make money.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Money, Making Money

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• Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Angel, Numbers, House

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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