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«Worthless people blame their karma»
«When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.»
«The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.»
Author: Reggie Jackson
| Keywords:
worthless
«Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.»
«Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds»
Author: Emily Bronte
(Author, Novelist, Poet)
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creeds, unutterably, weeds, wither, worthless
«The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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altogether, derive, favors, partly, pleasant, surprise, The Pleasure, worthless
«The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.»
«Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.»
«VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.They say that hens do cackle loudest when There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid; And there are hens, professing to have made A study of mankind, who say that men Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen Make the most clamorous fanfaronade O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid They're not entirely different from the hen. Lo! the drum-major in his coat of gold, His blazing breeches and high-towering cap -- Imperiously pompous, grandly bold, Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap! Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue Is that in battle he will never hurt you? --Hannibal Hunsiker»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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Earth
| Keywords:
homemade, launch, quarreling, spaceship, worthless
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