Useless Quotes
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Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
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Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
John Calvin
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
Ernest Hemingway
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
William Eggleston
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In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
Aristotle
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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.
Geronimo
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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.
Jose Rizal
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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
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
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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.
John Ruskin
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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.
John Ruskin
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All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.
Steve Morse
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If my face was covered, I would be useless.
Aaryn Gries
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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.
Demonax
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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Eugene Ionesco
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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.
Walter Karp
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Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
Westbrook Pegler
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You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Lord Byron
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Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.
Haruki Murakami
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I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.
Mireille Enos
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Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of holy water being sold at wal-mart.
Molly Harper