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«Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile»
«Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.»
«Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bully and truckle, and women who snub and crawl. I know that it is futile to, spurn them, or lash them for trying to get on in the world, and that the world is what it must be from the selfish motives which underlie our economic life.»
«People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
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«No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden»
«Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile»
«He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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«Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
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Criticism of others
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«Even the learned ones avoid people who are lazy because they know their efforts will go futile. »
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