“ Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ CURZON: What is your foreign programme? MUSSOLINI: My foreign policy is `Nothing for Nothing'. ”
- Benito Mussolini- Copy
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“ Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ”
- Paul Eldridge- Copy
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“ Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible to apply. ”
- Warren E. Burger- Copy
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“ In combat, life is short, nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier; he is concerned with his literal life chances. ”
- Charles E. Moskos- Copy
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“ Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them. ”
- Shirley Lord- Copy
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“ Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant. ”
- Gen Alfred Gray- Copy
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“ Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. ”
- Margaret Cho- Copy
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“ The two kinds of people who exist in this world are the decent and the indecent. Color, religion and nationality are irrelevant. Kindness, decency and behavior are what matters most. Our collective challenge, it seems, is to create a city and community where decent people of all races, ethnicities and religions can look into the faces of other decent people and see only one thing — God's image smiling back. ”
- Rabbi Micah Greenstein- Copy
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“ There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth, it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip. ”
- Leon Edel- Copy
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“ The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie "answers" questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery… ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best — out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. ”
- May Sarton- Copy
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“ If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then — let us make no mistake — pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality. ”
- John Middleton Murry- Copy
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“ I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question, 'Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
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