"...it is human nature, I suppose, to be……" — Rafael Sabatini

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• Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. — Abu Bakr
• Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will… — Tony Blair
• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would… — Albert Camus
• Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in… — Graydon Carter
• Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should… — Hideki Tojo
• The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The… — Boniface Wimmer
• I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White
• What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Perpetual peace is a futile dream. — George S. Patton
• One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this… — Enrico Fermi
• If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is… — Barbara Ehrenreich
• Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the… — Rajneesh

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