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He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.


Hesiod


#against #deprived #disgrace #himself #man

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.


Adolf Hitler


#any #intention #purpose #senseless #useless

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.


John Holt


#advance #future #instead #know #knowledge

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.


John Sladek


#fiction #goes #i #kind #like

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.


George Grosz


#anything #atmosphere #destruction #felt #great

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.


Maya Angelou


#senseless-worry #family

I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is it possible - the water wasn't deep enough for him to drown. It doesn't make any sense.' 'My band made four brilliant albums and never had a single goddamn hit. We were supposed to be the American Rolling Stones, and we couldn't get more than five minutes of airplay. Does that make sense?' Ted stubbed out his cigarette.


Elizabeth Hand


#fairness #fame #music-scene #senselessness #vagaries

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.


Charles Krauthammer


#bunch #complacent #cowards #deadly #dismiss

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.


Polly Toynbee


#disasters #example #falling #labour #only

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.


Gary Numan


#because #club #clubs #could #everyone






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