"He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity."
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"Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from."
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"Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part."
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"New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed."
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"One of my best friends is dating my other best friend, Lena!"
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"Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward."
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"The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting."
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"'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so."
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"Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one."
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"After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both."
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"An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object."
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"Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time."
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"She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony."
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"I know, I've never had boobs before!"
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"It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others."
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"We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be."
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"It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others."
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"Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives."
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"The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]"
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"There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous."
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