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Tag Name "Useless" (721)

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People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be discussed, even if the terms are only defined for a single conversation. Those involved in the conversation need to know how the terms are being used.
Pattiann Rogers
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We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
Werner Herzog
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Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.
Will Self
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Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
Abigail Van Buren
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
Samuel Johnson
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Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Do not give way to useless alarm though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Jane Austen
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I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.
Claire Danes
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
Luc de Clapiers
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The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.
Sophia Bush
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Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.
Russell Lynes
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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
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Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
Paul Newman
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It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
Bertrand Russell
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The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.
Katy Lederer
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It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.
Ann Coulter
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Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just... Jean: A little brat who swears a lot Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak Roy: Useless. Just useless Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that... Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!!
Hiromu Arakawa
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Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.
Clare Balding
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The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
Samuel Johnson
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
George Matthew Adams
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It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
C. S. Lewis
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands As useless if it goes as when it stands.
William Cowper
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To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.
Kanye West
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