Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
Chrysippus
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Inge
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You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.
Thomas Middleditch
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I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.
Nikki Cox
LifeMy LifeYouDownUselessGet
When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate.
Kofi Annan
PeopleTalkingSayQuestionUseless
I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.
Glenn Frey
YouLivingMatterNeverUseless
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
PlanningBattlePlansUselessAlways
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
Billy Connolly
ThinkYouUselessTerribleBeen
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
Albert J. Nock
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Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
Paul Newman
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Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.
Laurie Garrett
WillChangesEquityUselessVaccines
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
Darryl F. Zanuck
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Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
Sam Kean
WorldLateCountryUselessRussia
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
ArtUselessQuite
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr
KnowledgeActionUselessWithout
A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LifeDeathEarlyUseless
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
Michael Ignatieff
LifeFunIdeasPlayUselessFalse
It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.
Sonia Rykiel
CryUselessRunwayOutSendModels
Antioxidants are completely useless.
Michael Specter
Useless
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
StarsGoKnowLivingWhyUseless
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
GoodMenGood ThingsNowUseless
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones
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'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
Plautus
UselessWellHeMeansDoesUnless
If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't make them happy; I couldn't make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent.
Thomas Pogge
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