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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I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?
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Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.
Gail Devers -
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.
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Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
