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• I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

  Tom Waits

  Song, Thinking, Dust

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• You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Book, Sea

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.400, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Valuable, Ifs

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• I'm not great around the house, I'm pretty useless. I do little bits, but I never quite finish tidying up - I'll start, but I'll leave things unwashed in the sink. It has been known to irritate people somewhat.

  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

  People, House, Littles

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Taken, Discovery, Medicine

  "Wizard Edison". The Newark Advocate, January 2, 1903.

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• If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Looks, Finding Peace, Elsewhere

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• It is vain to try and hide a bad spirit from the eyes of them who are spiritual, for it will show itself in speaking and in writing as well as in all other conduct, it is also useless to make great pretensions when the heart is not right before God, for God looks at the heart, and where the heart is not right the Lord will expose it to the view of the faithful.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Spiritual, Eye, Writing

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• The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Morning, Shadow, Wake Up

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Second Ring of Power”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

  Grace Paley

  Writing, Vocabulary, Adequate

  Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan

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• You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

  Walker Evans

  Art, Style, Use

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• We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.

  Arnold Mindell

  Believe, Groups, Able

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• The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fighting, Soldier, Fabric

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• It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.

  Edward Luttwak

  Hard

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• All art critics are useless or harmful.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Art, Critics, Art Critic

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• And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure.

  Thomas Merton

  Strong, Night, Soul

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• Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

  Guy Pearce

  Memories, Facts, Records

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• It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

  Frederick Schiller Faust

  Men, Lakes, Water

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• All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.

  Amber Naslund

  Data, World, Measurement

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• The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because we have studied its ways and adapted ourselves to it. We are relevant when we reject the world outright and are its polar opposite! This present darkness provides a great opportunity for the church to be the salt of the earth, but if we mix with the very impurities we are supposed to expose... we are as useless as our culture already believes us to be.

  Paul Washer

  Believe, Biblical, Opportunity

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• Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.

  Henry Ford

  Real, Thinking, Men

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• Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.

  Mark Lawson

  Photography, Sex, Stars

  "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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• Most everything government does is worse than useless.

  James Cook

  Government, Doe

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• I just feel kind of out of place on Easter. I feel kind of useless because everybody else has kids and I don't and I'm just standing there with nothing to do.

  Holly Madison

  Easter, Kids, Kind

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• There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Should Have, Tasks, Executing

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• There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Two, Pleasure, Vain

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