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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

• For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.

  

  Anatole France

• 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

• Playing live is very exhausting, which is partly why I feel so tired today. But I've always wanted to live like that. I'd rather feel the experience than to be sort of feeling something in between and dull and numb. I love feeling the highs and the lows, it makes life far more exciting.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Today
  • Feelings
  • Tired

• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Remember

• There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Change
  • Escape
  • Boundaries

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

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Thinking
  • Agree
  • Absurdity