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• The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Nonsensical, Force, Term

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• The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

  Peter Hammill

  Thinking, Examination, Enthusiasm

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• I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

  Theodore Bikel

  Bored, Hopeless, Workers

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• Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Justice, Week

  "Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad".

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• I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

  Geezer Butler

  Disappointment, War, Fighting

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• When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Class, Technique

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• A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

  Rachel Cusk

  Writing, Ambition, Creative

  "Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

  Park Chan-wook

  Nice, Believe, Love Is

  "Exclusive: I'm A Cyborg Q&A". Interview With Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. April 4, 2008.

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• The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Baseball, Romantic Love

  Joe DiMaggio (2017). “BASEBALL FOR EVERYONE - A Treasury of Baseball Lore and Instruction for Fans and Players”, p.149, Edizioni Savine

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• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  Larry Elder

  Passion, Gun, Law

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• Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

  Frank Gehry

  Issues, Marketing, Tools

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• It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

  William Gibson

  Moving, Technology, Leaving

  William Gibson (2014). “Burning Chrome”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Mean, Responsibility, Language

  "Goldberg: The media is slobbering over Hillary Clinton". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Scenery without solace is meaningless.

  Mitch Albom

  Scenery, Solace

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Creativity, Conformity

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

  Henning Mankell

  Country, Violent Acts, People

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jul 29, 2011

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• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

  Eric Hoffer

  War, Men, People

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Differences, Long

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Heart, Brain, Wells

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• What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.

  Peter De Vries

  Ideas, People, Despair

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• As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ.

  David Platt

  Wrath, Race, Hands

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• And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

  Donald Miller

  Together, Stories, Taste

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• Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Soundtracks, Interaction, Humans

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

  George Orwell

  Different, Would Be, Impossible

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Evolution, Results

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