THIS EDITION: sense :: nonsense

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Quoted In The Grove:
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though… nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question ‘why?’ into a void that provides no answers.
~Peter David

The more sophisticated we become ‒ as we pierce reality and see the void beyond ‒ the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
~Eric Maisel

I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
~David Lynch

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What’s interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.
~Rob Bell

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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
~Ken Kesey (author)

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
~Isabel Allende (writer)

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other’s sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
~Patricia Arquette (actor)

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
~Jim Rohn

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
~Zig Ziglar

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Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
~Mark Van Doren

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
~Bob Newhart

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
~Jacob Riis

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I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be ‒ instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.
~Robert A Heinlein

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.
~Samuel Beckett

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.
~Terry Pratchett

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The more normal it gets for people to see people of a gender or skin tone they wouldn’t expect in jobs that they wouldn’t expect, or speaking a way they wouldn’t expect them to, the more it cultivates a sense that we share more than separates us.
~Kelly McCreary

A few good words don’t just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the next big step forward.
~Ravi Shastri

If you didn’t have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
~James Carville

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To succeed in this world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must be well-mannered.
~Voltaire

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
~Don Wood

I have met with some of them ‒ very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
~Giacomo Casanova

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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Someone bent on suicide won’t have much sense of humor left.
~Chuck Palahniuk

You’ve got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
~Lance Bass

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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
~Baron d’Holbach

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
~Elon Musk

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
~Isaac Asimov

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The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
~Frans de Waal

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
~Joan Halifax

Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can’t ever let that stop us. We can’t ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.
~Jon Huntsman, Sr

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We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.
~Les Brown

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
~Robert Collier

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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
~Jessamyn West

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
~Douglas Coupland

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
~John Zorn (composer)

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I don’t get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there’s no sense in getting upset. And I don’t get upset over things I can’t control, because if I can’t control them there’s no sense in getting upset.
~Mickey Rivers

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
~Wayne Dyer

Give up the thought that you have control. You don’t. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.
~Frances Arnold

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I imagined Kandinsky’s mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.
~Janet Fitch

It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.
~Margaret Atwood

I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?
~Scarlett Thomas

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There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don’t have time for hate or negativity in my life. There’s no room for it.
~Reese Witherspoon

Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can’t really think about that… which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It’s very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt.
~Bill Watterson

Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn’t always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.
~Dan Chaon

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All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
~Piers Anthony

I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it.
~Garth Nix

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.
~William P Young

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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
~George S Patton

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
~Prince Philip

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
~Simone de Beauvoir

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all.
~Nikolai Gogol

There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
~Cassandra Clare

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
~Carl Jung

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I’m self-opinionated and I have a sense of self.
~Paul Eenhoorn (actor)

Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.
~Sean O’Casey

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.
~Angelina Jolie

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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
~Euripides

We’re not blind and we’re not fools. We’re just plain sensible people who refuse to be fooled by a lot of supernatural nonsense.
~Eric Taylor

Because you can’t argue with all the fools in the world. It’s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they’re not paying attention.
~Christopher Paolini

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Common sense hides shame.
~Gaelic Proverb

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
~Sophocles

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
~Proverb

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If one’s sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.
~Brenda Shoshanna

When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.
~Kat Cole

It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we’ve been given. Still, like players who trust that ‒despite all evidence to the contrary‒ the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.
~Gary L Blackwood

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~W Somerset Maugham

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
~Aphra Behn

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known ‒ that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
~Norman O Brown

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Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.
~William Hague

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~Abraham Joshua Heschel

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
~Marcus Aurelius

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Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me, I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it’ll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
~Ray Bradbury

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
~Octavio Paz

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
~Kate Atkinson

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I just know that that doesn’t make sense, but I’m not sure why.
~Robert J Guia

It’s frustrating to know in your heart that what you’ve just heard is nonsense but not to be able to pinpoint why it is nonsense.
~Robert J Guia

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.
~Joseph L Mankiewicz

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
~ Mark Twain

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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another’s sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
~Saint Basil

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
~Walter Pater

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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
~Timothy Leary

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
~Alan Watts

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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
~Ravi Zacharias

It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging ·
~Paul Tsongas

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Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect ‒ but maybe the universe doesn’t insist on cause and effect.
~Edward M Lerner

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Your obsession with being in control of your mind makes you so stiff all the times; that is why our egos are growing, and our sense of humor is shrinking.
~Jasz Gill

Give up the thought that you have control. You don’t. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.
~Frances Arnold

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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
~Maxwell Maltz

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
~William Arthur Ward

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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
~Lyndon B Johnson

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
~Joseph Conrad

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It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
~Frederick Sanger (Nobel/biochemist)

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.
~Andre Geim

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
~Aristotle

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast ‒ you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
~Eddie Cantor

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Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why.
~Madonna Ciccone

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
~Harold S Kushner

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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
~Timothy Leary

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
~Alan Watts

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Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
~Eva Moskowitz

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
~Charles Churchill

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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
~Sarah Churchwell

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
~William Penn

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Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
~Martha Beck

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
~Samuel Beckett

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
~Freeman Dyson

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
~John Keats

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
~E M Forster

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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.
~Eckhart Tolle

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain’t natural.
~Neal Shusterman

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You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.
~Gordon B Hinckley

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs
~Christopher Morley

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I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I’d already done it… does that make sense?
~J K Rowling

It’s a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.
~Paul Auster

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~Francis Bacon

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
~Lou Holtz

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Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don’t laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
~Criss Jami

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
~William Davis

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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
~William James

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~Clive James

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Our answers make no sense because our questions make no sense.
~Marty Rubin

That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don’t make sense, neither will the answers.
~Kurt Vonnegut

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You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge.
~Robert M Pirsig

When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
~Wendell Berry

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Sometimes my life just don’t make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.
~Rich Mullins

I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
~Bill Watterson

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Why are they going to disappear him?’ I don’t know.’ It doesn’t make sense. It isn’t even good grammar.’
~Joseph Heller

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
~Fran Lebowitz

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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
~Robert Musil

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
~Hunter S Thompson

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Life doesn’t make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.
~Scott Weiland

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~Emily Dickinson

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