Useless Quotes

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If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You… — Gabe Newell
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I… — Jose Rizal
The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. — Tina Brown
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. — Michael Ignatieff
I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack… — Pierce Brosnan
I think without writing I would feel completely useless. — Sam Shepard
When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation… — Thomas Piketty
You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can… — Thomas Piketty
If a situation requires sudden thought and action, the blood is promptly driven to the head. If a heavy meal is to be digested, the… — Max Heindel
Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every… — Kara Swisher
The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems… — Marc Faber
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the… — Dean Inge
Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless. — John Wilkes Booth
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory… — Victor Davis Hanson
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare
Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons.… — Richard Reeves
There is nothing useless to men of sense. — Jean de La Fontaine
It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they… — Charles D. Broad
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. — Darryl F. Zanuck

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