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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.


Herodotus
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All art is quite useless.


Oscar Wilde
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.


Quintilian
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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No man is useless while he has a friend.


Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.


Karl Marx
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
Matt Haig
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What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?
Ellen Key
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.


Charles de Gaulle
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.


Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.


Esther Williams
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In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
Richard John Neuhaus
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In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.


Maxim Gorky
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
Henri Poincare
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
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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