"Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best.""
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"Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity."
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"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
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"It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl."
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"It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do."
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"Get up, you useless lump, get up!"
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"A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience."
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"it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises."
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"Ability without honor is useless."
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"I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking."
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"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"
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"Most arguments are useless."
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"We need useless theory more than ever today."
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"The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see."
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"A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless."
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"If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands."
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"Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful."
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"Suspicion is most often useless pain."
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"It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent."
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"A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic."
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