Agnes Repplier Quotes

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1855 - November 15, 1950

Topics

PeopleCivilizationWayAbsurdity

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

Jerry Brown

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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Andre Maurois

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Here's the problem: the so-called 'millionaire surtax' is a permanent tax to pay for a temporary benefit.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

Jon Ronson

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To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.

Timothy Noah

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'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'

Kristina McMorris

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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Kurt Vonnegut

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I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

Kim Cattrall

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Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.

Justin Trudeau

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Walk, skateboard, bike, car pool, or use mass transit more, and drive less.

Gretchen Bleiler

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I'm way too disorganized.

Hope Davis

WayDisorganizedToo

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

Eliot Engel

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