Jim Harrison
Novelist, Poet
"The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense."
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense."
Frederic Chopin
Composer
"The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything."
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"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense."
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"You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense."
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"Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it."
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"I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel."
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"I don't have time for any nonsense."
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"I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me."
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"From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture."
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"My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense."
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"The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting."
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"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense."
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"Beauty should be edible, or not at all."
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"Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense."
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"I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense."
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"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."
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"Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder."
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"I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public."
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"Nonsense, seems to sum up everything."
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"Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction."
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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
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