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For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis;… — Rajneesh
If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If,… — Sun Tzu
The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will… — Gregory Bateson
It is useless to send armies against ideas. — Georg Brandes
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. — Klemens von Metternich
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a… — Dmitri Mendeleev
Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless.… — Marcel Proust
All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for… — Demi Lovato
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and… — G. Stanley Hall
Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him… — Walt Whitman
I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you… — Percy Cerutty
Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. — Chief Seattle
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. — Adolf Hitler
In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless. — Zubin Mehta
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity. — Eugene Ionesco
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden… — King Hussein I
Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to… — George S. Patton
All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the… — Hugh Reginald Haweis
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come… — Victor Hugo

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