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• I need dating advice. Fast.” Ash arched a single brow at that. “I’m useless. I’ve never been on one.” The three human men turned to gape at him. “What?” Ash asked them defensively. Nick started laughing. “Oh man, this is priceless. Don’t tell me the great Acheron is a virgin?” Ash gave him a droll look. “Yeah, Nick. I’m lily-white.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, White, Laughing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.117, Macmillan

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• As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

  Bill Watterson

  Congratulations, Long, Forever

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  People, Answers

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "A Question for the Sun" (p. 123), 1999.

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• I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Men, Care, Ornaments

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

  Alain de Botton

  Travel, Information, Necklaces

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• Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Country, Truth Is

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• In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.

  Roger Zelazny

  Believe, Mirrors, Blood

  "The Guns of Avalon". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1972.

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• Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.

  Richelle Mead

  Dad, Writing, Half

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.138, Penguin

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• I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sorry, Love You, I Am Sorry

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Gone, Like Her

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• Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

  Holly Black

  Memories, Lying, Flower

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

  Maya Angelou

  Sleep, Pride, Winning

  Maya Angelou (1983). “Shaker, why don't you sing?”, Random House Inc

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• You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

  Caroline Myss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Teaching, Too Much

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.129

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• I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.

  Simone Weil

  Happiness, Fighting, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.5, Routledge

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• I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Happiness, Opportunity, Mind

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

  Wright Morris

  Past, History

  Wright Morris (1978). “Cause for Wonder”, p.53, U of Nebraska Press

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• Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Golf

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• It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

  Charles Simmons

  Intelligence, Intellectual, Becoming

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• If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Support, Intelligence

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.59, Routledge

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• It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Knowledge, Useless Knowledge, Knows

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• Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Tasks, Littles

  James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion”

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• Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

  Demonax

  Men, Law, Good Man

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• The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Ignorance, Sacrifice

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.9, Da Capo Press

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• It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

  Marvin Minsky

  Science, Watches, Would Be

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