- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baffling Quotes
Puzzling lines about things nobody can quite explain.
Some ideas resist tidy answers, and that's exactly what makes them baffling. This set of quotes leans into contradiction and mystery, much like our Because collection does for cause and effect.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.
- Guide
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
- Profound
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and astrology as a profession where getting it patently wrong is just not a problem - and also, rather wonderfully, seems to have no adverse affect on their professional standing whatsoever.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020