“ Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs. ”
- Konstantin Chernenko- Copy
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“ Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves. ”
- Cesar Chavez- Copy
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“ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. ”
- Errol Morris- Copy
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“ Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. ”
- River Phoenix- Copy
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“ RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way, but they come out looking another way, and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities… ”
- Diane Arbus- Copy
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“ Genius sits in a glass house — but in an unbreakable one — conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips… ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism — victimless collecting, as it were… in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage… ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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