"We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless."
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"There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you."
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"In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds."
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"It is useless attacking the insensible."
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"Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths."
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"Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable."
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"Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain."
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"most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory"
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"The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse."
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"I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable."
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"If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that."
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"Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything."
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"Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery."
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"Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits."
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"If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur."
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"No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry."
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"Books without the knowledge of life are useless."
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"Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless."
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"It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing."
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"I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction."
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