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Letter "A" » absurd
«The logic of the heart is absurd»
«You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.»
«To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason»
«The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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«To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd»
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