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• Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association.

  Camille Paglia

  Teacher, Association, Firsts

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."

  Kenneth Tynan

  Indulge In, Luxury, Despair

  "Conference at Edinburgh (1963)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 146, 1967.

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• What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Work, Doors

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• And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.

  Bruno Schulz

  Albums, Study, Excitement

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

  Howard Gardner

  School, Students, Aliens

  Howard Gardner (1991). “The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach”, Basic Books

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• There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

  Jon Krakauer

  War, Misery, Glamorous

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• Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Past, Realizing, Heal

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• I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Vacation, House, Sitting

  Source: variety.com

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• With Batman&Robin, the fourth entry in the recent Batman movie series, the profitable franchise appears poised to take a nosedive. This film, which places yet another actor in the batsuit, has all the necessary hallmarks of a sorry sequel - pointless, plodding plotting; asinine action; clueless, comatose characterization; and dumb dialogue. Batman&Robin moves at a dizzying pace, yet goes absolutely nowhere.

  James Berardinelli

  Sorry, Moving, Clueless

  "Batman and Robin (United States, 1997)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• To be fair, I don't have a lot of clothes and you know, Einstein had the same outfit, five different times because he didn't want to spend energy trying to decide what to wear every day. It's pointless. I have a shirt that I wear when I'm not on stage and then I have a sweaty shirt that is so disgusting it would blow your mind.

  Sam Endicott

  Blow, Clothes, Mind

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• Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Physics, Unfolding, Witness

  Daniel H. Wilson (2014). “Robogenesis: A Novel”, p.333, Vintage

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• Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Worry, Mind

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

  P. D. James

  Breathing, Metaphysical, Speculation

  P. D. James (1984). “Trilogy of Death: Three Complete Novels”, Scribner Book Company

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• The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

  Mason Cooley

  Intellectual, Shock, Businessman

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• Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "Do I have the right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides, what's the point of getting thirsty when I can't get anything to drink now, anyway?" Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel--and certainly our anger is no exception.

  Harriet Lerner

  Meaningful, Anger, Glasses

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 23, 2015

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• The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

  Wendell Berry

  Pride, Despair, Waste

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.10, Counterpoint Press

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• With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

  Huston Smith

  Thinking, Errors, Mind

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• The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.

  David Sedaris

  Thinking, Trying, Shooting

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• Regret is such a pointless emotion, don't you agree?

  Cassandra Clare

  Regret, Emotion, Agree

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1036, Simon and Schuster

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• Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Loneliness, Rain, Kids

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it.

  Darren Shan

  Brother, War, Smart

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• I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Things In Life, Important, May

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• Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Mean, Doubt

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• In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

  Jacques Ellul

  Reflection, Men, Modern

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• Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

  Gary Hamel

  Struggle, Top Down, Political

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