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• Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless.
  But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Judging, Mind

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• Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

  John Calvin

  Vain

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• Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Mean

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• Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Men

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.168, 谷月社

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• The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

  Walter Lippmann

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• Knowing that one dies... has brought with it a peace that before was elusive to say the least... it is useless, if at times pleasurable, to fantasise about the future. It is not here and it is not known. In the same way the past is just that. Past. Gone. To be relinquished. 'What's done cannot be undone.' Now is what it's about... Life is still to be lived, suffered, enjoyed, battled over.

  Ruth Cracknell

  Art, Past, Knowing

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• Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

  Robert South

  Reading, Digestion, Eating

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• You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

  Mother Teresa

  Love Is, Slavery, May

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.69, New World Library

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• Knowledge without understanding is useless.

  Thucydides

  Understanding

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• Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

  Napoleon Hill

  Action, Good Intentions, Appropriate

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.61, Penguin

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• The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

  Dalai Lama

  Suicide, Country, Fighting

  "Dalai Lama laughs off China's criticism" by Rod Mickleburgh, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 8, 2006.

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• Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inner Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.89, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Giving, Important

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• The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

  Aaron Copland

  Not Happy, Satisfied, Audience

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• Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For perfection is not to be found in them; it is acquired through them. It is useless, therefore, to boast of our fasting, vigils, poverty, and reading of Scripture when we have not achieved the love of God and our fellow men. Whoever has achieved love has God within himself and his intellect is always with God.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Reading, Men

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• As long as we cling to the superstition that we must look to government for money supply, instead of requiring it to look to us, just so long must we remain the subjects of government and it is vain to follow this or that policy or party or ism in the hope of salvation. We can control government and our own destiny only through our money power and until we exert that power it is useless for us to debate the pros and cons of political programs.

  E.C. Riegel

  Party, Destiny, Government

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• When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.

  Bertrand Russell

  Party, Thinking, Political

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.

  Simone Weil

  Religious, Heart, Son

  "Letter to a Priest". Book by Simone Weil, section 8, 1951.

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• Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

  Karl Kraus

  Psychology, Poison

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.

  Steve Jobs

  Ipods, Design, Trying

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.38, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  May, Matter, Gods Will

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1866). “The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)”, p.131

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• Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

  Frank Herbert

  Experts, Chaos, Source

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Exercise

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

  Peter Weiss

  Wages, Poverty, Revolution

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.81, A&C Black

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• The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Ideas, Form

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