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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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• Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Type, Alliteration, Tempted

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• That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say
  "In July" and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me for saying so. It's just stupid... "In July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize "In" in "In July". Impossible!
  Meaningless!

  Orson Welles

  Sorry, Stupid, July

  YouTube Channel "Meta Sage"/"Obscure Audio 2: Orson Welles Outtakes - Frozen Peas", www.youtube.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I believe that life is meaningless without hope, which is really what that line is about. Without hope, what are we living for? I wouldn't wanna see where exactly I'd be in five years. I wouldn't wanna know my exact date of death. I wouldn't want to know my exact cause of death. Certain things I just want to allow to take place rather than just have the knowledge beforehand.

  Joe Budden

  Believe, Years, Causes

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• Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Justice, Week

  "Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad".

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• Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

  Frank Gehry

  Issues, Marketing, Tools

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• Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

  Bill Murray

  Awards, Acting, Campaigns

  "Murray Upset at Oscar Result". www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2004.

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• Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

  Henning Mankell

  Country, Violent Acts, People

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jul 29, 2011

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• Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

  Harvey Mackay

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Secret, Life Is

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• Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rhythm, Celestial, Acceleration

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.

  Susan Vreeland

  Kissing, Joints, Essentials

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• And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

  Donald Miller

  Together, Stories, Taste

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• Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Soundtracks, Interaction, Humans

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

  George Orwell

  Different, Would Be, Impossible

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remember when Twitter first came out. I was so against it, I wanted nothing to do with it. I wanted to keep my life to myself. I felt like I didn't want to just put things out to the world that were pointless and meaningless.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  World, Remember, Pointless

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Brain, Religion, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

  Marion Woodman

  Inspiration, Addiction, Understanding

  Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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• Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wisdom, Fun, Discipline

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.220, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Practice without improvement is meaningless.

  Chuck Knox

  Wrestling, Practice, Improvement

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• The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Lying, Athlete

  "Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, 1990.

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• Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Jargon, Disease

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Understanding, Important

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

  John Berger

  Photography, Choices, Decision

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.344, Vintage

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• Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Character, Son

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