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• It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Practice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1943). “He Follows Christ”

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• I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

  Frances Farmer

  Useless Things, Atheism, Littles

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Enemy, Important, Action

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.29, Bottom of the Hill

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• It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

  John Ruskin

  Pride, Someone You Love, Loses

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

  Os Guinness

  Hurt, Moving, Fall

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• There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

  Herodotus

  Foolish, Outrage, Given

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• If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Teamwork, Time, Jobs

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• I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Intelligent, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Memories, Auctions, Scar

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Dictionary, Uselessness

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• Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Preparation, Essentials, Planning

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• It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

  Jonathan Swift

  Acceptance, Men, Religion

  Attributed to Jonathan Swift in "Scientific American", Volume 7 (p. 338), 1851; also in M. M. Ballou "Treasury of Thought" (p. 433), 1884.

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• You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

  Ken Jeong

  Believe, Tools, World

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• Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mulling Over, Worry, Things Change

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.13, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

  Thomas Hardy

  Time, Jobs, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.8199, Delphi Classics

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• I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

  Walter Legge

  Art, Committees, Convinced

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• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Great Day, Examination, Today

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.152, tredition

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• Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

  Edward Abbey

  Virtue, Morose

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.113, University of Arizona Press

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• If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

  Antonin Scalia

  People, Looks, Constitution

  "Scalia Slams 'Living Constitution' Theory", www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
  of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.

  Roland Barthes

  Simple, Unity, Accessories

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• Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Thinking, Matter, Push Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.

  Walter Pater

  Special, Quality, Definitions

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are disposed of, well, because they are useless, they do not produce, neither children nor the elderly produce; then, with more or less sophisticated systems they are slowly abandoned and now, as in this crisis it is necessary to recover some equilibrium, we are witnessing a third very painful discarding –the discarding of young people. Millions of young people… are discarded from work, are unemployed.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Elderly, People

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• Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

  Friedrich Engels

  Order, People, Frightened

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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