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• In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Order, Wish

  Ingrid Newkirk (2009). “The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble”, p.21, Macmillan

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• He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Pain, Fall, Heart

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.307, Princeton University Press

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• If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

  Dalai Lama

  Selfish, Logical Reasoning, Goal

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Generations, Discussion

  Source: feathertale.com

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• Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Reflection, Men, People

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• I think that there's absolutely no point trying to force your body to be anything than what it is. I think that when you see people who are really pushing themselves to terrifying lengths to achieve what is perceived as being beautiful today, then that's just terrifying, it's really terrifying.

  Keira Knightley

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  "Keira Knightley Talks Pride and Prejudice". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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• I try not the count chickens, and I really do because there's no point because you go crazy. I'm very happy with the way this is working out. If they do another movie I'd love to do, and we'll fit in it.

  Daniel Craig

  Crazy, Work Out, Trying

  "Daniel Craig Is Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 4, 2007.

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• The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

  Dorothea Dix

  Cutting, Design, Society

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• As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Inspirational, Art, Work

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.813, Northwestern University Press

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• In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Equality, Thinking

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• The due of honor in no point omit.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Dues

  William Shakespeare, George Stevens, Alexander Chalmers (1855). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.765

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• There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

  P. D. James

  Regret, Past, Way

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.

  David Douglas

  Thinking, Cameras, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Race, People, Achievement

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• I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.

  Alex Borstein

  Moral

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Luxury, House, Care

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• My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

  Imelda May

  Writing, Mean, Pretending

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• There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.

  John von Neumann

  Talking, Knows, Precise

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• A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

  Harry Nilsson

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• Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.

  Carrie Fletcher

  Stars, Dark, Light

  FaceBook post by Carrie Hope Fletcher from Feb 15, 2014

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• That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

  Michael Arrington

  Jobs, Real, Black And White

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• I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.

  Charles Kuralt

  Texas, Perfect, North Carolina

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• I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Wish, Age, Lessons

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• I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed

  Douglas Adams

  Reading, Watches, Fiction

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• A lot of guys in New York will only play with an edge. They find their groove and that's their groove. to me, once I do that, there's no point in playing anymore because it should always be a mystery. Depending on who you are playing with, there are hundreds of ways of playing. I think that a master can play all those different kinds of time.

  Fred Hersch

  New York, Thinking, Play

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