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• The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Romantic, Honesty

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• There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

  John Bercow

  Worry, Influence

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• There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.

  Bruce Riedel

  Military, Iraq, Broken

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• Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.

  Les Carlyon

  Sports, Hero, Passion

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• He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.

  Roland Huntford

  Life, Attitude, Hero

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• There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

  Ken Follett

  Lying, Men, Asking

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett Three Bestsellers”, p.1216, Penguin

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• At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Risk, Exposure

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.6, Random House

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• There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

  Jessica Cutler

  Reality, Alternate Realities

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• Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Yoga, Worry, Needs

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• There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift

  Jon Pall Sigmarsson

  Strength, Bodybuilding, Alive

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• You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

  Edgar Degas

  One Day, May, Conception

  "Degas Danse Dessin (Mad About Drawing)". Book by Paul Valery (1935) translated by David Paul (p. 64), 1989.

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• There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

  David Dinkins

  Worry

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• When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.

  Sarah Burton

  Believe, Design, Collections

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Thinking, Voice

  Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

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• It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweat, Perfect, Want

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.7, Penguin

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• Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

  William James

  Truth, Views, Owing

  William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here.

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Camps, Dies

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1149, Penguin UK

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• It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

  John Flanagan

  Would Be, Armor, Half

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• At some point, there would simply be no point.

  Lisa Genova

  Lisa Genova (2009). “Still Alice”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no point in it unless it's a story that you really want to tell. It's a nebulous job. Unless you're doing it well, you're not doing anything. And there are a few of those. It's perfectly possible to be a passenger on a film set because if somebody else has written it, you can make nothing of that role and that's exactly what bad directors do.

  Colin Firth

  Jobs, Directors, Roles

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have no point in procrastinating any longer.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Procrastinating

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

  John Green

  Nihilism, Nihilist

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

  Bruce Beresford

  Character, Singers, Wonderful

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• As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.

  Robert Reich

  Business, Responsibility, Lines

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• There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Depression, Cancer, Sadness

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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