"It is useless work that darkens the heart."
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"To a poet nothing can be useless."
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"I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head."
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"I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government."
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"I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you."
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"Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!"
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"To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content."
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"As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other."
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"With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!"
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"Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]"
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"Life is a useless passion."
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"Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God."
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"Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)"
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"Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison."
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"Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available."
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"Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam."
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"Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison."
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"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."
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"Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre"
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"Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?"
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