Useless Quotes
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
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We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.
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For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
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Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.
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All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.
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WHEN THE BODY is rendered useless, the mind still runs like a bloodhound along well-worn trails of neurons, tracking the echoing questions: the confused family of whys, whats, and whens and their impossibly distant kin how. The search is exhaustive; the answers, elusive.
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
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Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
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What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour.
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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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Most everything government does is worse than useless.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition
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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
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'You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.
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If my face was covered, I would be useless.
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Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
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I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I can only grow to what I will be from what I am, and where I am, so discontent is quite useless. Much more sensible to accept the one and love the other.
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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
