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"I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been."
"The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States."
"The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars."
"Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."
"Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly."
"I'm the oldest I've ever been, right now."
"I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen"
"Credulity is always ridiculous."
"How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not."
"It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible."
"Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us."
"It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman."
"If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person."
"Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine."
"I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever."
"It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish."
"To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous."
"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."
"A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient."