Useless Quotes

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If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the… — Bertrand Russell
Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a… — James Branch Cabell
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. — Demonax
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,… — Christopher Hitchens
It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens. — Marvin Minsky
Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about it, doing anything… — Nirmala Srivastava
Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign. — Walter Lippmann
When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end,… — Chris Colfer
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. — Esther Williams
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died… — G. H. Hardy
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. — Stefan Sagmeister
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and… — Gary Wolf
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements,… — Arne Glimcher
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but… — Howard Rheingold
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. — Chief Seattle
I have to confess here that I am a useless cook. — Jasper Carrott
Antioxidants are completely useless. — Michael Specter
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do… — Virginia Postrel
Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential… — Nancy Gibbs

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