Worthless Quotes
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Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border of neighboring municipalities and exchanging them for good with ignorant common people, bringing back the good coins and debasing them again. More and more mints were established. Debasement accelerated in hyper-fashion until a halt was called after the subsidiary coins became practically worthless, and children played with them in the street, much as recounted in Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Ivan the Fool.
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The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.
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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
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It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.
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Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.
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All the worldly trappings of kingship were worthless frippery when it came to the soul.
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Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.
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Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.
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The past was nothing, a dream; it could not be touched or altered. It was, in his view, worthless.
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Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.
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As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
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Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
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Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.
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Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.
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Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.
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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
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I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.
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No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.
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When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
