#absurd

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#because #create #cutting #economy #fall

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. ↗

— M. C. Escher

#achieve #attempt #basement #check #go

What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world?
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— Jarod Kintz

#freedom #freedom

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#becomes #conclude #futile #norm #people

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#absurd #any #encounter #i #level

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd. ↗

— Arthur Holly Compton

#absurd #attitude #feeling #first #paper

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#best #lovers #make #most #people

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. ↗

— Vartan Gregorian

#behalf #fragments #humanity #keep #libraries

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book #dear #i #idea #never

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#breath #completely #i #mention #name