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Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

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• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Box

• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Man
  • Peace
  • Religion

• Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Great
  • Truth

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Champagne

• And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Up
  • Time
  • Experience

• I think mobile advertising is going to be huge.

  

  Matt Cohler

• I encourage interoffice romance.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Culture

• Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Italian

• No one should have to live in fear.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Live
  • Fear

• I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

  

  Jill Abramson

• My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Great
  • Real

• To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Perfect
  • Value
  • Gold

• Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Why

• While they believe the pursuit of profit is important to sustaining a business, millennials also say that pursuit must be accompanied by a sense of purpose, by efforts to create innovative products or services, and, above all, by consideration of individuals as employees and members of society.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Business

• Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Occasions

• He’s not that young, he’s turned twenty-three, and what makes him feel foolish among these people, he’s married. Nobody else here looks married. There is sure nobody else pregnant, that it shows. It makes him feel put on display, as a guy who didn’t know better.

  

  John Updike
  • People
  • Guy

• I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Inspired
  • Goodness

• Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
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