Samuel Johnson Quotes
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Quotes to Explore
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.
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My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.
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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
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We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
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Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
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The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.
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Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.
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That's pretty much a tired topic. At this point, it's either you're riding with me, or you're not. I feel like this is the prime of my life and the prime of my career, and there's a lot bigger things in store for me. So when I hear that stuff, I just remember that at some point in time, every athlete who plays this game is going to hear something like that. I just take it with a grain of salt.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
