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• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus
• Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of… — George Carlin
• Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran
• If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell
• Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. — Abba Eban
• To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo
• Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The fatal futility of Fact. — Henry James
• The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in… — Rajneesh
• What is hope but futility for moments stood on end. — Unknown Author
• I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,… — Helen Prejean
• Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from… — Ron Holland

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