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• Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

  Alexandra Robbins

  Groups, Versus, Mentality

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• Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Character, Scripture, Christ

  G. C. Berkouwer (1975). “Holy Scripture”, p.166, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• That's usuаllу hоw thеу start, thе young оnеs. Meaningless waffle.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Waffles, Young

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• Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

  Edward Teller

  Physics, Mathematics

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.1, Basic Books

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• When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

  Michael Huffington

  Reality, Thinking, Soul

  "For What Profits A Man If He Gains The Whole World But Loses His Own Soul" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainly dependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by any mechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding of the fundamental impulse. Your drawing becomes a meaningless diagram and the time so spent is wasted.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Drawing, Understanding, Feelings

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Intelligent, Evil

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• It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

  Michel Foucault

  Names, Speak, Reason

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• The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

  John Steinbeck

  Wall, Philosophy, Lying

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.174, Penguin

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• In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.

  Steven Pinker

  Cat, Awards, Rocks

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• Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

  Billy Graham

  Resurrection, Crosses

  Twitter post from Apr 02, 2015

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• Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Want, Longing

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• All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

  Pat Conroy

  Life, Happens, Things Happen

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• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

  Lewis Mumford

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Revenge

  "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

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• We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

  Joan Didion

  Fate, Men, Escaping

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 24, 2011

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• All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

  William Saroyan

  Dirty, People, Comedian

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• Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Art, Believe, Perfect

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• If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

  Anwar Sadat

  Men, Law, Humans

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

  Susan Faludi

  Moving, Complaining, Culture

  "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

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• Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.

  Nick Denton

  Writing, Pieces, Apps

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• I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Annoyed, Calling

  "Advice to a Young Scientist". Book by Peter Medawar, p. 25, 1979.

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• The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

  Ernst Mach

  Mean, Perfect, Tasks

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

  Hu Shih

  Meaningful, Live Life, Men

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• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Thinking, Light, White

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• Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term "still" seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

  Greil Marcus

  Real, Simple, Records

  "This is Greil Marcus’ Brain on 'Shuffle'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2010.

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