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«Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.»
«Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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absurd, dozen, embrace, masses, points, revolutionary, roughly, social rights, the right way, weak point
«Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.»
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible»
«The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.»
«The absurd is sin without God.»
«My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.»
Author: Lord Byron
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absurd, breaking point, breaks, every now and then, now and then, out in, point of view, spite, The Turning Point, turning point
«There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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absurd, express, philosopher
«Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.»
«Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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absurd, checks, ridicule, smothered, smothering, smothers
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