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Tag Name "Futile" (147)

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When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.
Eckhart Tolle
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How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
Helen Keller
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The animal testing regime... is utterly futile
Michael Rawlins
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I understand the technique of eccentricity it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
Rex Stout
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Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.
Joseph Kosuth
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So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.
Saint Augustine
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We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.
Susan Mitchell
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Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr
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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.
Enrico Fermi
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Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.
Ryan Shawcross
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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
George Earle Buckle
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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.
Mary Ritter Beard
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There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
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When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.
H. H. Asquith
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Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
Joseph Conrad
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If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
Yukio Mishima
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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
Woodrow Wilson
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The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.
Morihei Ueshiba
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Paul said in I Corinthians 15:17, if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile. So that's the linchpin of the Christian faith, is whether Jesus did indeed, A, live, B, die, and C, was resurrected from the dead, which authenticated his claims of divinity.
Lee Strobel
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Stephen Covey
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