“ All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual. ”
- Brendan Francis- Copy
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“ Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes. ”
- Pindar- Copy
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“ When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- 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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“ If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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