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futility
«Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization . . . Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.»
Author: Bill Moyers
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chamber, echo, exhaustion, futility, reverberate, reverberated, reverberates, reverberating, self taught, sharing, soundproof, trapped
«I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
War
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brutalities, brutality, futility, lived, seen, soldier, stupidity
«It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility»
«Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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Beyond the Limits, first instance, futility, grasp, grasps, human mind, illusion, instance, limits, mad, The Second
«Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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above all, boredom, building, bustle, bustles, bustling, carrying, characterize, characterized, commonly, feverish, futility, incoherence, participant, puffed, puffing, puffs, rush, signs, stones, sweats, The Building, the participants, weariness
«When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
aspirations, futility, have young, hopes, lives, men, most, precocious, pursue, rather, realized, still, their, throughout, vividly, Was, young, young man
«Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.»
«Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
dust, dusting, established, example, futility, good example, put right