#futile

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know. ↗

— Terrence Howard

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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment. ↗

— Carl Andre

#around #artist #because #create #environment

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. ↗

— Maya Lin

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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. ↗

— Lee Loevinger

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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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