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It is useless work that darkens the heart. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. -- Milton Friedman
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test. -- Henry Ford
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. -- Carlo Ponti
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems. -- Tariq Ramadan
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we'd be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren't true. They're useless. But that's not the way we work. -- Paul Bloom
An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Talent without work is useless, thank God -- Mark Twain
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst. -- Paul Krugman
It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it. -- Tom Petty
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone. -- Paul Gauguin
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient. -- Abigail Van Buren
The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy. -- Aaron Copland
It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists. -- Jane Goodall
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles. -- Paul Cezanne
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery. -- Mother Teresa
This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think. -- Vladimir Putin

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