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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Change
Happiness
Knowledge
Positive
Attitude
Character
Disposition
Human Nature
Waste
Little
Life Happiness Nature
Changing
Efforts
Fruitless
Seek
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To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.
Tomi Lahren /
Agree
Chamber
People
Talk
Only
Exist
Echo
Fruitless
Whom
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To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
Jean Monnet / Political Figure
Bases
Meaningless
Fruitless
Hypotheses
Rewrite
Task
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo / Poet
Effort
Evil
Omnipotence
Efforts
Escape
Fruitless
Resulted
Thoughts
Smother
Tries
Whoever
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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey / Philosopher
Men
Beautiful
Color
Flower
Perfume
Seems
Words
Fruitless
Speaks
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch / Former Taoiseach
Communication
Argument
Boxers
Coke
Grammar
Ibm
Pepsi
Style
Versus
Mac
Fruitless
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'MasterChef''s preliminary stages deliver just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day's fruitless existence.
Charlie Brooker / Broadcaster
Viewers
Deliver
Fruitless
Preliminary
Stages
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In 1976 the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed, sending the EPA on a 30-year-plus odyssey chasing down the chemical industry in a fruitless quest for responsibility.
Suzy Shuster /
Chasing
Epa
Odyssey
Toxic
Chemical
Fruitless
Passed
Quest
Sending
Substances
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I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.
James Mcavoy / Actor
Character
Information
Littles
Embarked
Unfortunately
Frederick
Fruitless
Search
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I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.
Thomas Steinbeck / Writer
Eighteen
Stunning
Catch-22
War Time Work
Drafted
Fruitless
War Work Time
Joseph
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Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.
Sayed Kashua / Author
Equality
Built
Discourse
Left
Liberty
Servant
Wonder
Master
Fruitless
Israeli-Palestinian
Rather
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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck / Author
Journey
Travel
Coercion
Next Adventure
Plans
Struggle
Two
Years
Person
After
Alike
Take
Find
Itself
Fruitless
Policing
Safeguards
Trip
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Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad / Former President Of Iran
Friendship
Iran
Unfortunate
Belongs
Destroy
Option
Fruitless
Insist
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I've spent years in therapy excavating my endless, often fruitless drive to overachieve. I have learned that being successful hasn't made me happy. It's just made me successful. I even call myself a recovering overachiever.
Rachel Simmons / Author
Endless
Overachiever
Recovering
Therapy
Fruitless
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We have a very disabled person in our family who is cared for by someone who lives a life most other people would find impossible, and her faith is making it a joy for her. And you can't argue with that. I mean, you can, but it's fruitless.
Tom Hollander / Actor
Disabled
Life Faith Family
Argue
Cared
Fruitless
Life Family Faith
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Big government, global environmentalism cannot work unless everyone pitches in. With China, Russia, India and a number of other countries constantly cheating the rules of international climate agreements, it makes staying in them an expensive - yet fruitless - cause.
Katie Pavlich / Journalist
Big Government
Cheating
China
Environmentalism
Expensive
International
Other Countries
Russia
Staying
Rules
Agreements
Constantly
Countries
Fruitless
Global
Pitches
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Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
Lz Granderson / Journalist
Home
Men
Debate
Men And Women
Our Lives
Sacrifice
Life Work Men
Life Work Women
Comparing
Fruitless
Right Balance
Sacrifices
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We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
Bahá'u'lláh / Mirza
Happiness
Affection
Desire
Harm
Nations
Unity
Away
Between
Bonds
Wars
Fruitless
Pass
Shall
Sons
Strengthened
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I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'
Lin-Manuel Miranda / Composer
Accents
Latin
Racism
Sopranos
Auditioning
Encountered
Fruitless
The Sopranos
Variations
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From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'
Naomi Wolf / Author
Vacation
Careers
Defined
Desirable
Expression
Paramount
Sex
Size
Fruitless
Mate
Quest
Sexes
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The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time I see any work of art really beautifully done, like Michelangelo's 'The David' or that movie 'Lost in Translation' - it inspires me to try and find my own version of that.
Rodney Crowell / Musician
Bob
Despair
Dylan
Time Art Work
David
Version
Beautifully
Bob Dylan
Art Time Work
Work Time Art
Fruitless
Inspires
Translation
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Country
Fodder
Herring
Israel
Numbers
Red
Repression
Sufficient
Tomorrow
Arab
Content
Cannon
Countries
Distract
Fruitless
Masses
Palestinians
Powers
Surrounding
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