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• Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

  Isaac Barrow

  Anecdotes, Kind, Poetry Is

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• Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Simple, Rights, Natural

  Anarchical Fallacies art. 2 (1816)

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• I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

  Gunter Grass

  Seductive, Found, Pathos

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• The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

  Michele Bachmann

  Hoaxes, Global Warming, Bigs

  "Elected Officials Deny Climate Science as Climate-Related Losses Grow" by Shawn Lawrence Otto, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.

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• If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Pace, Crowds

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Blue, Space, Bird

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• Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Ignorance, Fate, Hands

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

  Ayn Rand

  Nature, Doe, Demand

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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• A goal without a method is nonsense.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Goal, Management, Method

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• Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Pennies, Jingles

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.90, Whitaker House

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• Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms akimbo, like superman-exept with only the underwear. I wasn't sure what to say except: "Put some clothes on!" "These children are under my protection," Bes insisted. "I don't know you," I said, "I never met you before today." "Nonsense. You expressly asked for my attention." "I didn't ask for the Speedo Patrol!

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Clothes, Underwear

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• People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

  Tim Ferriss

  Powerful, Successful, People

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• Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Caring, Thinking, Essence

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Thought Provoking, Steps

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• The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

  John Green

  Voice, Feelings, Important

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• You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.” At that, Tessa had to try very hard not to blush. “How did that happen?” Will made an airy gesture with his hand. “I was drunk…” “Nonsense. You were never really drunk.” “On the contrary—in order to learn how to pretend to be inebriated, once must become inebriated at least once, as a reference point. Six-Fingered Nigel had been at the mulled cider—“ “You can’t mean there’s truly a Six-Fingered Nigel?

  Cassandra Clare

  Tattoo, Mean, Thinking

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• I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.

  Georgette Heyer

  Writing, Thinking, Air

  "Georgette Heyer, queen of Regency romance, honoured with blue plaque" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 05, 2015.

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• Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Boards, Rubies

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.331, Macmillan

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• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Clever, Stupid, Doe

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.100, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Names, Mit

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.138, The New Press

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• Be as pissed off as you want to be. Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldn’t be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change in the lives around us. (I know, I’m cheesy.) So the next time someone calls you emotional, or asks if you’re PMSing, call them on their bullshit.

  Jessica Valenti

  Emotional, Thinking, Bullshit

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know”, p.69, Seal Press

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• What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

  Franz Kafka

  What If, Littles, Ifs

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

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• If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

  Daniel Handler

  Morning, Feel Better, Miserable

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• I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.

  Chelsea Handler

  Passion, People

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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