"Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense."
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"Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense."
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"I'm very giving. Even if it's for nonsense, I'll give it to you."
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"If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'"
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"Well, India is a country of nonsense"
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"Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple."
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"I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does."
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"It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it."
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"It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place."
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"If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space."
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"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
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"The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God."
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"Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure."
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"If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself."
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"We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time."
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"in nonsense is strength"
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