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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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We have major fiscal problems on our hand. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

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No problem is too big to run away from. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#big #no problem #problem #run #too

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#everyone #killing #problem #simply #solve

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#advantages #also #bad #bad days #because

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I have problems with machines which aren't gestural. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

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Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#basketball #football #olympic #problems #sports

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you. ↗

— Shakira

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