#nonsense

Conspiracy theorists like to claim NASA’s moon landing was faked. Well of course it was! But the biggest conspiracy of all is the Columbus landed in the new world in the late 15th century. There is no new world. It simply doesn’t exist. And Amerigo Vespucci? He was a character out of Walt Disney’s diary.
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— Jarod Kintz

#nonsense

If you say that you'd never hurt anybody, you're lack of emphaty and full of bullshit. ↗

— Toba Beta

#lack-of-emphaty #nonsense #people-hurt #nonsense

And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb—alive, alive, ALIVE. ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#maddie-bradott #nonsense

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#defend #doctrine #every #gross #make

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#changed #consolation #crutch #evidence #harm

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics. ↗

— Rick Wright

#dressed #i #lyrics #moore #nonsense

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#brain #discerning #genius #gives #good

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#hears #more #museum #nonsense #perhaps

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#charge #claim #creationist #critics #evolution

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#boy #enough #happy #him #know