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‘But that’s absurd …’
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I stare at the water remaining in the glass I am holding … but that is ridiculous … absurd … it would mean that Dan would have to be psychotic or something … wouldn’t it?
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‘Stephen, don’t be absurd! I couldn’t possibly move into your house
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What an absurd episode!
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‘But that is absurd
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It was absurd
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It was absurd, and even as I thought this, I found myself cramming the last piece of bread into my mouth as I grinned underneath my hood
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’ I said rather damply, it is absurd how much this has touched me
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Joris throws more and more absurd imprecations at his friend’s back, making me giggle even more - the only suggestion that Berndt can hear any of this being the occasional shaking of his shoulders as he fails to suppress his laughter at the ridiculous things being said
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We eye each other like a couple of territorial felines but then my sense of the absurd hits me and I burst out laughing, taking him with me
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All my confident poise deserts me and I feel an absurd urge to burst into tears – shit! Some of this must have shown in my face, for the next thing I know is that Karen is reaching across the table
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Sons have this absurd idea that their mothers are somehow incapable of looking after themselves even if the evidence all points to the contrary
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This is absurd - that’s you giggling, Sally! And you were worried about the effect alcohol would have!
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Honestly, Sarah, you are getting maudlin! How absurd can you get?
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can we have gone from so absurdly happy and almost settled to … to this, in a blink of an eye? But that's the crux of it, isn't it, it was absurd
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‘That’s absurd, Dave! As if my mother could dislike anything in trousers!’
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Briefly he considered passing something on to Chas’s family, and dismissed it as an absurd idea
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‘As you no doubt realised, the media have heard about the events at the hostel – I had to deal with them first before the rumours got too absurd
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“Oh come on,” she said, wondering that he could pursue this masquerade so deeply into the absurd
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She was almost pleading with me not to think badly of her, absurd under the circumstances
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‘That’s absurd – they’re your woods, aren’t they?’
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‘This is absurd! My client has never contested the
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Nothing can be more absurd, however, than to imagine that men in general should work less when they work for themselves, than when they work for other people
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It seems absurd at
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Their absurd presumption
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workmen could easily change trades with one another, if those absurd laws did not hinder
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This desire cannot be fulfilled and through failure he grows ever desperate, eventually falling prey to the most absurd forms of hope
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‘Then you have no proof! The whole idea is absurd
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It would be absurd, however, to infer from thence, that there are commonly in the market three score lambs for one ox ; and it would be just as absurd to infer, because an ounce of gold will commonly purchase from fourteen or fifteen ounces of silver, that there are commonly in the market only fourteen or fifteen ounces of silver for one ounce of gold
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not proposed really seems absurd
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To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public ; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can only serve to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens
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“But that’s absurd!” objected Aetes
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visited the loo an absurd number of times
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Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor
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Among all the absurd speculations that have been propagated concerning the balance of trade, it has never been pretended that either the country loses by its commerce with the town, or the town by that with the country which maintains it
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But in the present state of Europe, when small as well as great estates derive their security from the laws of their country, nothing can be more completely absurd
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They are founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses ; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those who died, perhaps five hundred years ago
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The ancient policy of Europe was, over and above all this, unfavourable to the improvement and cultivation of land, whether carried on by the proprietor or by the farmer ; first, by the general prohibition of the exportation of corn, without a special licence, which seems to have been a very universal regulation ; and, secondly, by the restraints which were laid upon the inland commerce, not only of corn, but of almost every other part of the produce of the farm, by the absurd laws against engrossers, regraters, and forestallers, and by the privileges of fairs and markets
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But it readily occurs, that the number of such utensils is in every country necessarily limited by the use which there is for them ; that it would be absurd to have more pots and pans than were necessary for cooking the victuals usually consumed there; and that, if the quantity of victuals were to increase, the number of pots and pans would readily increase along with it ; a part of the increased quantity of victuals being employed in purchasing them, or in maintaining an additional number of workmen whose business it was to make them
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unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families, by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils
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To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it
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Nothing, however, can be more absurd than this whole doctrine of the balance of trade, upon which, not only these restraints, but almost all the other regulations of commerce, are founded
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The bounty upon the exportation of corn necessarily operates exactly in the same way as this absurd policy of Spain and Portugal
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A seemingly meaningless world confronted by humans who want meaning creates the absurd
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In other words, the absurd arises from the clash between the human desire for meaning, reason, order, and clarity, and a world that appears to us to be unreasonable and irrational
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The Absurd but Happy Life of Sisyphus
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The hero of the Camus essay, perhaps the prototypically absurd person, is Sisyphus
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I think that Camus is telling us that the absurd person is fully aware of the irrationality of existence, embraces it, and exploits that irrationality to find happiness where there should be none
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Making its home in the material world, your mind demands the rationality and reason that set up the dilemma of the absurd
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I believe that Camus would have you be absurd and irrational
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Camus does not tell us how to embrace the absurd and find happiness
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As you come to know the joy available in the practices described in this book, the anxiety of the absurd goes away
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This statute, however, authorises in some measure two very absurd popular prejudices
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The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine
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That security which the laws in Great Britain give to every man, that he shall enjoy the fruits of his own labour, is alone sufficient to make any country flourish, notwithstanding these and twenty other absurd regulations of commerce ; and this security was perfected by the Revolution, much about the same time that the bounty was established
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Industry is there neither free nor secure; and the civil and ecclesiastical governments of both Spain and Portugal are such as would alone be sufficient to perpetuate their present state of poverty, even though their regulations of commerce were as wise as the greatest part of them are absurd and foolish
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The same passion which has suggested to so many people the absurd idea of the philosopher's stone, has suggested to others the equally absurd one of immense rich mines of gold and silver
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Edna began to feel slightly absurd standing there in front of the kids without clothing
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It is indeed absurd to slap our right cheek to spite the one on the left!
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It is to expel those foreign capitals from a trade which their own grows every day more and more insufficient for carrying on, that the Spaniards and Portuguese endeavour every day to straiten more and more the galling bands of their absurd monopoly
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When it came to the absurd stories, he literally scratched his head
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’ It sounded absurd now, in this situation
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But the cruellest of our revenue laws, I will venture to affirm, are mild and gentle, in comparison to some of those which the clamour of our merchants and manufacturers has extorted from the legisiature, for the support of their own absurd and oppressive monopolies
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The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it
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Of course, it was absurd to believe they could actually have saved Emelda from a fatal accident
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The slightest degree of knowledge and application will enable him to do this, without exposing himself to contempt or derision, by saying any thing that is really foolish, absurd, or ridiculous
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There are no public institutions for the education of women, and there is accordingly nothing useless, absurd, or fantastical, in the common course of their education
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An absurd thought, he reasoned
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The privileges of the clergy in those ancient times (which to us, who live in the present times, appear the most absurd), their total exemption from the secular jurisdiction, for example, or what in England was called the benefit ofclergy, were the natural, or rather the necessary, consequences of this state of things
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Would that not be the same as saying that a big industrial fuel plant was the designer of the large compressors, operating within it, and that over time the compressors adapted to the environment to become perfectly part of the plant and to provide compressed air to specific units within the plant? It is absurd and makes no sense
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fruquently, too, by cultivating all those arts which best deserve, and which are therefore most likely to gain them, the esteem of people of rank and fortune; by their knowledge in all the different branches of useful and ornamental learning, by the decent liberality of their manners, by the social good humour of their conversation, and by their avowed contempt of those absurd and hypocritical austerities which fanatics inculcate and pretend to practise, in order to draw upon themselves the veneration, and upon the greater part of men of rank and fortune, who avow that they do not practise them, the abhorrence of the common people
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As we have previously explained, the scientific community’s standpoint on something occurring by chance, with odds of less than 1 in 1050 means that it is absurd or impossible and cannot have occurred by chance
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"What an absurd idea
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Absurd and destructive as such taxes are, however, they take place in many countries
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There is nothing so absurd, says Cicero, which has not sometimes been asserted by some philosophers
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Under such absurd management, nothing but the great fertility of the soil, and happiness of the climate, could preserve such countries from soon relapsing into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism
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It dawned on him how downright absurd this was
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The notion that he would actually receive a reply seemed absurd at this point
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He started walking forward, at first making slow awkward strides and then faster, and all the time Zolla's (imagined) voice in his head, Don't rationalise the absurd, Jimmy
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He wanted to laugh, because the question seemed absurd
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It might just feel like waking from a dream that was becoming increasingly absurd
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The Governor replied: “It is absurd to think that a man able to send envoys to England, has only that small amount in his treasury
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It seemed absurd to imagine that
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Art Stupefaction conceals an inherent baseness common to affected styles and manners that is often lost on the casual observer, captivated as many of them are by erratic forms for their own sake without giving considered thought to their (social) implications; radical ―art‖ forms whose intended meaning, if any, are often unclear, its premises anti-social, tasteless, adolescent, absurd, valueless and immoral
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"Well, you see," he resumed nervously, "it was very absurd, but I did believe the girl's story--the old story, you know, of privation and
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The above is another reason why I find the training of the new SAPS by outsiders so absurd
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That is another reason why I find the training of the new Police Service by outsiders so absurd
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The idea that multi billionaires would fund media opposed to their interests is absurd
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Lisette made an absurd squealing noise, and I treated her to a glare
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Thorne directed medical procedures from his home? It was absurd, but I couldn’t manage to be surprised about anything he might do
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I was helpless against it, but a part of me could recognize how absurd it all was
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The thought of vampires getting offended at the name that humans used for them struck me as absurd
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Particularly had Johnson's impeachment been earlier over his actual abuses of power, the precedent would have made it more difficult to use impeachment for such utterly frivolous and absurd cases as impeaching Clinton for lying about oral sex, or downright surreal and delusional birth certificate theories about Obama
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It was absurd, of course
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Too often those on the left, the center, and even the libertarian minded or pragmatic conservatives have fallen for fear mongering, false absurd claims such as imagining a nation in the Mideast or Latin America can actually be a threat to the US
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absurd technicalities, the greater is the need for the
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“Hah!” said Maintenon, slapping his thigh in delight at the absurd vagaries of fate
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Utterly absurd to the point of bringing tears of laughter to Hilderich, who simply could not cope with all that in any way
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Trevor also caught a glimpse of his surroundings in that brief spell of light, but instead of being upset, his considerable intellect engaged in finding a solution to their absurd predicament
