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When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.… — Eric Hoffer
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man… — Stephen Leacock
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is… — Thorstein Veblen
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. — Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in… — Ed Bliss
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook. — Walter Darby Bannard
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap. — Richard Codey
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how. — Norman Vincent Peale
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but… — Vera Nazarian
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth,… — Criss Jami
All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between… — E. M. Forster
Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only… — Heinrich Heine
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. — Eric Hoffer
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed… — Maya Lin
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply… — Nelson Mandela
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to… — Jose Marti
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the… — Blaise Pascal
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile. — Pope John Paul II
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always… — Alan Watts
In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may… — Viswanathan Anand
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. — Regina Brett
How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the… — Christopher Paolini
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It… — Joseph Brodsky

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