Absurdum Latex Quotes & Sayings

A tub was brought in to melt snow for mortar. They heard somebody saying it was twelve o'clock already.
"It's sure to be twelve," Shukhov announced. "The sun's over the top already."
"If it is," the captain retorted, "it's one o'clock, not twelve."
"How do you make that out?" Shukhov asked in surprise. "The old folk say the sun is highest at dinnertime."
"Maybe it was in their day!" the captain snapped back. "Since then it's been decreed that the sun is highest at one o'clock."
"Who decreed that?"
"The Soviet government."
The captain took off with the handbarrow, but Shukhov wasn't going to argue anyway. As if the sun would obey their decrees! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it, — Jack Granatstein

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science). — Paul Tillich

When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help. — Lori Goodwin

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know. — David McCullough

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience. — Bernard Iddings Bell

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded. — William Joyce

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements. — John Sexton

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not. — Emily Haines

Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes