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People of sense will not take its absurd triviality as anything but helpful in contributing to the proof of the survival of personal identity. Oliver J. Lodge
absurd base figure looks seek
Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it. Tommy Caldwell
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Some people called postal privatization an absurd idea. But the people judged that it is the right idea, Junichiro Koizumi
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I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the list. It's absurd and completely unjustifiable. Their problem was they had to put an Australian on it. These lists are always so right-wing. It's like the Nobel prize, it is always 'people we can do business with'. Germaine Greer
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It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo, Robert Lantos
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I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way! Sir Eddington
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The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.' George Soros
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The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it Anatole France
absurd attention campaign desperate divert issues leadership matter merely photo smear
The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest. George Osborne
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Recovering equities and still overall strong commodity markets suggests that there is little broad-based concern that central bank policy tightening will curtail global economic growth and there is still adequate global liquidity chasing higher risk assets and capping risk premiums, Greg Gibbs
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Recent trends are such that 'reasonable prudence and responsibility' are no longer adequate to protect executives from liability in the case of security or performance breakdown. You need to show extraordinary efforts are taken to ensure policies exist, are applied consistently and that rigorous searches to look for, identify and resolve vulnerabilities are made regularly. Richard Ptak
adequately plan position
Our position is that we did plan adequately for the postwar period. Frederick Jones
adequate basically bringing competition position prices
Our position is that basically there is adequate competition in the market, which is already bringing these prices down. David Pringle
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Organizations of all sizes need to understand that the nature of IM-borne threats is substantially different than the threats that enter a network through email. A tool that protects against email threats is critical, but won't provide adequate protection against the growing array of threats that enter networks through IM clients. Michael Osterman
adequate finding members response trouble
Our members and many of our newer members are having trouble finding adequate housing. This is in response to that. David Riley
adequate familiar government guarantee people questioned state
People more familiar with state government have questioned how we can guarantee that our state appropriations will be adequate to guarantee tuition. Joe Moore
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Some of the poorest developing countries lack the resources, for example, to pay farmers adequately to get rid of sick chickens. Paul Wolfowitz
adequately apparently cannot teaching threat war
Someone once said that war is God's way of teaching geography, but today, apparently war or even the threat of war cannot adequately teach geography, John Fahey
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling Felix Frankfurter
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If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier. Bruce Lahn
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We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong. Terry Jones
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To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday. Georgia Witkin
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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. Thomas Hardy
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I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. Alan Furst
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. Malala Yousafzai
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One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel Thomas Buxton
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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. William Blake
ground people speed wind
Surface, or ground level, is where the people are and so that wind speed is what you want to know. Frank Lepore
ground people related unclear
Our people on the ground say it's unclear if it's related or not. David Cook
ground knowing learn pitchers strength
Our strength will be our defense. Our pitchers will learn to use the defense, knowing they don't have to go for the strikeout and can get the ground balls. Shawn Rychick
ground seed
It is always interesting to put seed into the ground and see what comes up, Joe Moore
ground last nato next support understand
Last week, there was no support for American or NATO ground forces. Next week, I think there may be, because we understand more, Joseph Lieberman
groundhog-day prophet disappear
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. Bill Vaughan
ground hit phil
That would be one place where Phil can hit the ground running. Dennis King
grounded trying
I was really intimidated. I was really timid. And so a lot of what Ang did with me was trying to get me grounded and I think that's why he had me do tai chi, just trying to get me settled. Jewel
ground needed oil work
I think they will do all right. More oil is needed out of the ground so there is work for these guys. Keith Morris
perfectly stop wish
I wish there was something we could do to stop it, but it is zoned GB (general business), and it is perfectly in their right to put it there. Neil Ingle
perfectly played spread
He was an equal-opportunity dotter. No one has played perfectly this season, so he spread the, I won't say love, but he spread his laser pointer around. Chad Brown
perfectly prepared understand
We're confused. We don't understand the judge's reaction. We're perfectly prepared to prosecute this case. JoAnn Carrin
perfectly unorthodox
I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery. Theophilus London
perfectly-good bird mouths
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him? Aldous Huxley
perfectly
I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. Elsa Peretti
perfectly positive status
To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way. David Schwimmer
perfectly
To be perfectly honest, it's never been too rough. From the start, everyone's been really good. Gena Pharis
perfectly-normal fire favors
It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments. Kurt Vonnegut
theory
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting. M. Wolfe
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If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case. Charles Darwin
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The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? Charles Darwin
theory precision unified
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. Brian Greene
theory therefore trivial
If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy. Lee Smolin
theory
The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. Frederick Pollock
theory convinced universal
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. Albert Einstein
theory conclusion ifs
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions. Albert Einstein
theory practicals solutions
The most practical solution is a good theory. Albert Einstein