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• Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

  Richelle Mead

  Technology, Class, Pie

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• It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Cost, Should

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• In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

  Abbi Glines

  Fall, Perfection, Twisted

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

  Robin Ince

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

  Robbie Robertson

  Band, Reason, Touring

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• History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

  Andrew Marr

  History, Lessons, Facts

  Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Music, Regret, Thinking

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• To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lonely, Real, Cities

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• Basically, I know there's no turning back the clock, and it's sort of pointless to mourn what has passed, but I don't know if the alternatives now really replicate the learning experience that I had, in terms of what I gained from making mini-comics. There were certain components of it that are completely gone because of being able to just throw stuff up on your blog the minute you're done with it.

  Adrian Tomine

  Alternatives, Gone, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is-next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Hate

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.175, Penguin

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• Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape; my voice is unpleasant; my mind is confused. - We are so caught up in this pointless, neurotic habit of criticism that we disparage others as well as ourselves. This is extremely damaging.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Confused, Voice, Mind

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.

  Faye J Crosby

  Women, Real, May

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Freedom, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Buying, Furniture, Toddler

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

  William Faulkner

  Elephants, Giving, Caviar

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• I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to be afraid, and also that it was pointless - possibly wasted, if the feared thing never did materialize. But now that fear has packed its miserable bags and is running out the door, making slamming noises to call attention to itself, I begin to see how much room fear has occupied. What opportunity opens up!

  Jan Frazier

  Running, Fear, Opportunity

  Jan Frazier (2012). “The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is”, p.216, Weiser Books

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• What can you think when one review says "this album is brilliant, and all the songs flow into the utmost brilliant song 'The Upside-Down Cross'" then another review says "this album is brilliant, except for that horrible and pointless song 'The Upside-Down Cross'," and another review will say "Jeffrey really sounds confident and relaxed on this new album", the next reviewer says "Jeffrey sounds more depressed and awful than ever" - these totally contrasting reviews happen all the time!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Thinking, Awful

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

  Gore Vidal

  Pointless Things, Things To Do

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• I would love for Hillary's [Clinton] massive ad campaign to be pointless and worthless. I would love for it to bomb out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Campaigns, Bombs, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm not really big into Twitter and stuff, but I like to post really cool music videos, just sort of spread a positive light on things that interest me. As opposed to, "I hate so-and-so because they were wearing the same hat as me." That's just so pointless.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Hate, Light, Video

  Ocean Pleasant Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Doors, Years, Realize Things

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• As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

  Andy Kaufman

  Country, Animal, Superstitions

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• If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Hollywood, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did for a living. I said, "I write," and it seemed totally ridiculous in the face of what had just happened. I mean, I couldn't think of anything more pointless than telling stories. He asked, "What do you write?" I said, "I write children books."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Children, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Worry, Suffering, Add

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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