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"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about." »Woodrow Wilson
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"We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell." »Clarence Darrow
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"Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things." »Robert Smith
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"If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile." »Yukio Mishima
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"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house." »Josephine Hart, "Sin"
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