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• Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

  Elie Wiesel

  Home, Mean, Government

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• It's great to have a buff frontal cortex to do that harder thing - for example, help a person in need rather buy some useless, shiny gee-gaw.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Example, Needs, Helping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

  Russell Means

  Government, Age, Affair

  Source: progressive.org

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• Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Order, Behavior

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's rights activist, which is basically the only two ways men have of talking about gender right now, I mean that's just ridiculous. That's just two extremes that are totally useless.

  Stephen Marche

  Taken, Mean, Night

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Innovation, Plot, Stories

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.

  David E. Cooper

  Writing, Dust, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mistake, Useless Things, Skills

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to follow.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Would Be, Limits

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

  George Matthew Adams

  Character, Men, Soul

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.15, Ravenio Books

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• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Monsters, Ugly

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• How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

  Nellie Bly

  Morning, Doctors, Sick

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.82, Nellie Bly

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• The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

  Sophia Bush

  Realizing, Politician, Knows

  "Sophia Bush disappointed in Obama, scared of GOP field" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Atoms, Literature

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• Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Hands, Scratches, Ears

  "Planet Of The Apes: Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". Cinema.com Interview, www.cinema.com. 2001.

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• So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

  Joan Collins

  Bags, Ugly, Down And

  "Joan Collins: Wardrobe secrets for timeless glamour - whatever your age" by Joan Collins, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 01, 2010.

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• I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

  Louis C. K.

  Travel, Bores You, Useless Things

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• I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.

  Claire Danes

  Smart, Kids, Nerd

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• Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

  Democritus

  Men, Giving, Good Things

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Knowledge, Facts

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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• I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

  Pope Francis

  Blood, Church, Battle

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.54, A&C Black

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• I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

  Geronimo

  Children, Thinking, Wind

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• I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Stuff

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• I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, War, Men

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• I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

  Marc Jacobs

  White, Black, Pieces

  "Exclusive Q&A with Marc Jacobs". Interview With Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. August 10, 2010.

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