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Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

— Adolf Hitler

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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

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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. ↗

— George Berkeley

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There's a difference between violence and senseless violence. ↗

— DMX

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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone. ↗

— Frederick Tennyson

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. ↗

— William Penn

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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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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

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