Quotes with useless

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  • Antonin Scalia If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Lin Yutang If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
    Lin Yutang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • David Ogilvy In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Samuel Johnson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Tom Stoppard It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Pythagoras It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Dean William R. Inge It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Dean Inge It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
    Patriotism (1919)
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  • Klemens Von Metternich It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
    Klemens Von Metternich
    Austrian diplomat and statesman (1773 - 1859)
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  • Shirley Maclaine It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
    Shirley Maclaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • George Brandes It is useless to send armies against ideas.
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  • Lord George Byron It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Anton Chekhov Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Albert J. Nock Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Man is a useless passion.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Albert Camus Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Santayana Music is essentially useless, as life is.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson No man is useless while he has a friend.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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