"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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"No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly."
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"A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him."
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"September is pantyhose month. No nonsense."
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"Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation."
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"Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"
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"You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense."
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""Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.""
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"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human"
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"There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense."
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"There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful."
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"Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense."
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"Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face."
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"I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality."
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"Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous."
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"Exported revolution is nonsense."
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