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Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born â€“ children are discarded. The elderly are… — Pope Francis
I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves… — Junichiro Tanizaki
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. — Friedrich Engels
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in… — Storm Jameson
It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. — Thomas Jefferson
Most animal experimentation is useless. — Henry Heimlich
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on… — Gary Snyder
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil,… — Alfred de Musset
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening… — Thomas Jefferson
All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas… — Jim Rohn
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless. — Ramana Maharshi
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou
Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up… — H. L. Mencken
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. — Henry David Thoreau
The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts… — Learned Hand
Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations,… — Matt Groening
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… — Victor Hugo
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. — Walter Lippmann

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