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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Absurd Practice Prevails Country
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

Rest Eternally Course Absurd
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My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.

Long Knocked Absurdity Intensity
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God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

God Qualified Sinner Work
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He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

Nothing Christ Absurd Christian
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Absurdity Champion Defend Every
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Absurdity Creature Living Man
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Absurd Breaks Every Given
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Absurdity Truth Day Fish
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Absurd Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Absurd Breath Mention Name
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Who Believe Absurdities Commit
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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Believe Impossible God Absurd
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Absurd Contrary Nature Reason
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A scientific invention consists of six (or some number) ideas, five of which are absurd but which, with the addition of the sixth and enough rearrangement of the combinations, results in something no one has thought of before.

SCience Idea Enough Invention
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Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think ...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.

Attempt Absurd Achieve Impossible
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People should stop defending the absurd by saying it is media houses that leaked the President's DRAFT speech.

Draft People Defending Absurd
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Absurd Little Make More
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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Abandon Absurdity Apparent Because
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Absurd Here Huge IThink
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That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Thing Hell Punishment Absurd
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How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!

Absurd Become Christian Critics
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Absurd Argument Been Christian
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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

Absurd Accent Being Bring
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A king without power is an absurdity.
Absurdity King Power Without
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Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

Sometime Absurd job You go Help people
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Rape is an act that is worthy of condemnation in our society. The girl child deserves our protection from this form of absurdity. As a government, we will do everything within our reach to guide against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in its entirety.

Rape An act Worthy Condemnation
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

Unaware The absurdity We introduce Petty household
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For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In politics In religion Equally Making proselytes
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A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

Single ego Absurdly narrow Vantage point The world
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One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

One Show Contempt Cruelty
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Human nature Think wisely Act Absurd fashion
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Refusal Believe Until proof Rational position
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Some logic is absurd. Government defending their corrupt activities because its citizens are corrupt.

Some logic Absurd Government defending Corrupt activities
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In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd,It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

In chess Intellectual game Where randomness Is excluded
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Interested Food Production Absurd
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Philosophies Age Wisdom Tomorrow
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What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

What Laugh Horror Upset
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Valuable Man Attention Infirmities
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Attain Impossible Attempt Absurd
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