“ There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
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“ It is useless to meet revenge with revenge. It will heal nothing. ”
- J.R.R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. ”
- Klemens Von Metternich- Copy
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“ No one is useless in this world," retorted the Secretary, "who lightens the burden of it for any one else. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. ”
- Rosalia Castro- Copy
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“ Extreme distrust is not less harmful than its opposite; the greater part of men are useless to him who will not risk being deceived. ”
- Luc De Clapiers- Copy
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“ It just seems so useless to have to work so hard and nothin' ever really seems to come from it. ”
- Tom Petty- Copy
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“ When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless. ”
- Billy Connolly- Copy
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“ Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak. ”
- John LeCarre- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. - James Nathan Miller. ”
- James Nathan Miller- Copy
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“ Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. ”
- Stephen R. Covey- Copy
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“ It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion. ”
- William Ralph Inge- Copy
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“ The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how.". ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable… ”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed… ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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