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Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
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I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve.… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex.… — Tim Farrington Copy Share Image
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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
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The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
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