"Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics."

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Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

Thomas Nagel

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“I've been a fan of Mads since the â€œCasino Royaleâ€ movie. I really sat up and paid attention to him. I was like, â€œWho is this motherf**ker?â€ Even his work in something as sort of popcorn as â€œClash of the Titans,â€ he brings a kind of danger and reality and he grounds it in such a way that you think, yes, I'm good to work with this guy. I should come back, just stay behind him. (Laughs) Our working relationship has been fantastic.”
“When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - we remember those because they're the exceptions, not the rule.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.”
“All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!”
“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night”

Source : Sarah Kay's Commencement Address at Scripps College in Claremont, California, www.scrippscollege.edu. May 20, 2015.
“So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.”
“I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!”
“How does the weakness of the dollar affect your business?”

Source : "'Safe' VP Contender Rob Portman Isn't Boring" by Matt Negrin, abcnews.go.com. April 26, 2012.

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