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And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

Angela Carter
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Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

Billie Letts
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Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tro... by Eric Gamalinda

Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat.

Eric Gamalinda
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Frances Farmer
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Only useless things are indispensable. by Francis Picabia

Only useless things are indispensable.

Francis Picabia
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There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Georges Clemenceau
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We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got... by George Eliot

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

George Eliot
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I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

H. G. Wells
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Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Henry Ford
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There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Henry James
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Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Henry Ford
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

Jack Dorsey
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The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Leonardo da Vinci
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I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Louis C. K.
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I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

Mira Nair
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I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. by Mo Rocca

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Mo Rocca
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless i... by Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

Plato
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Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.

Reid Hoffman
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