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«The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.»
Author: George Earle Buckle
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futile
«Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.»
Author: Lee Loevinger
| About:
Television
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futile, goose, goose egg, laying, lays, scrambled, scrambled eggs
«The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.»
«The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Thinking
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«Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as party of government.»
Author: Tony Blair
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Government,
Power,
Principles
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barren, futile, Party of, This is a
«The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achie»
Author: Walter Horatio Pater
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accommodation, accommodations, discontent, futile, maintenance, The Complete
«The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
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«Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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«The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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