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. . .to be useful to no one is, strictly speaking, to be worthless.

Rene Descartes

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Thomas H. Huxley

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

In the depths of my heart I can't help being convniced that my dear fellow men, with few exceptions, are worthless.

Sigmund Freud

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

Ambrose Bierce

We lost a lot of self-esteem, a lot of credibility. We all hit the (job) market at the same time, vying for the same jobs. I went through a severe depression where I felt absolutely worthless.

Rosemary Barnes

It's worthless to talk about now. He was like my big brother. He annoyed me, but I got along really well with him. You truly connect with people. I considered our friendship to be unique and strong, but, in comparison, it wasn't as important as a million dollars.

Julie Berry

Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

Dr. John Marshall

All I know is I'm positive I killed her. She was like a threat to me. Everything I did she could match. That wasn't right. She made me feel worthless.

Michael Crowe

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for.

James Nathan Miller

It's completely irrelevant whether something is good or bad or valuable or worthless.

Marc Abrahams

In my opinion, the patents are worthless, IT managers and entrepreneurs shouldn't be afraid of patents. They can safely ignore them.

Vernon Keenan

The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

Frank Yerby

Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless.

George Lucas

"I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog."

Sitting Bull

Buildings like this in one sense are priceless, ... but if you can't sell them, they're worthless.

Jeff Carter

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Worthless people blame their karma.

Burmese Proverb

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Sinclair Lewis

…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero….

Alfred Korzybski

I, on the other hand, completely believed every single thing they wrote. I believed I was the worthless person they were talking about.

Sarah Ferguson

If I didn't draw comics I was a worthless human being. It was tedious labor, so I worked fast to get it over with.

Robert Crumb

The stuff being promoted as serious culture and performed in the Lincoln Centre was absolutely worthless. There was no real emotion in it, the possibility of ingenuous experience had been replaced by an ideology of science and scientism.

Henry Flynt

Now those are the two--two examples -- pimps, three. They're your third... probably the three most worthless type people in a large city.

Mark Fuhrman

In 1998 I was allowed to look at the file. They tell you 'file' and you expect a folder with maps, documents, testimonies. What they showed me was a folder containing two or three worthless papers.

Yoni Gilat

Trying to interview him before a game is completely and totally worthless. He gives you these kind of guttural grunts. He basically mumbles anyway, so I had difficulty understanding him.

Buzz Bissinger

Please, it is meaningless for you [reporters] to continue your wild guesses, ... As time goes by, you will realize that all these speculations have been worthless.

Frank Hsieh

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Caecilius Statius

The freedom of speech is worthless without the freedom of offensive speech. Goebbels and Himmler were for freedom of speech that was inoffensive to the state.

Avram Noam Chomsky

Doubles today is virtually worthless.

Charlie Pasarell

It may be a case of bad judgment bordering on stupidity. What Mr. Regan had with him was worthless. It wasn't even classified. It posed no harm to the United States.

Jonathan Shapiro

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. They say that hens do cackle loudest when There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid; And there are hens, professing to have made A study of mankind, who say that men Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen Make the most clamorous fanfaronade O'er their most worthless work; and .

Ambrose Bierce

I've been complaining about how worthless the results from Technorati are for the past six months (at least)…Amazing how quickly the mighty have fallen. At a conference last year half the screen in the audience seemed to be on Technorati. Now, I do my canned technorati searches and I see nothing but items from a year ago and spam. Ugh.

Jason Calacanis

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Clive Bell

Any random set of numbers, when played with as Hoagland did, will yield many coincidental mathematical relationships, ... His mathematical analysis is so full of holes, flaws, and misdirection that it is completely worthless.

Philip Plait

In an annual report, you'll have a great deal of information that is of value, some that has some sort of value, and some that is worthless.

Richard Loth

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

Ivo Andric

It is worthless to talk individually about a republican set up sitting inside a room unless people express their tremendous support for this. If the king does not accept multiparty democracy, human rights and press freedom in the country, we will say that the monarchy is not needed by us either.

Sushil Koirala

Anyone who gives up is worthless.

Brandon Inge

A compass in the north is worthless. You got true north and magnetic north and the needle just goes round in circles. It's all dead reckoning, and he knew every point of land - he'd been there so many times.

Paul Eitel

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

Amir Butler

The department does have a contingency plan, ... but the plan is worthless because it has not been tested.

Stephen Horn

My son is totally different. When your child has said how he feels worthless, he wants to kill himself, and there is no point in living, as a parent you do take notice and think where can I go for help.

Charlotte Dodds

[In short, Internet privacy policies offer consumers very little protection.] Six months ago, just having a privacy policy was considered pretty honorable, ... Today, most policies are pretty worthless.

Abner Germanow

I also want the other people (living outside) to come out and open their mouths before they end up dead. You lose purpose. Without purpose, why bother? You feel worthless.

Diane Lessig

I think we were perceived as the big, bad city trying to take their land. It's not as if we were trying to annex. This land is nearly worthless without it being cleaned up. And it's only worth something if we work together to clean it up.

Stephen Fowler

You can't assume that this person is worthless. You can't assume that they were a drug dealer. You can't assume that their life didn't mean something and they weren't productive and they weren't somebody's father.

Adreinne Young

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It was a gutsy performance. She was pretty far back and went up and challenged. She got one of them and lost the other on a lean. It's a nice comeback season for her. She hasn't fallen into the worthless senior trap. She just wants to end her career on a good note.

Rich Refi

At the end of the day when all this money is paid for legal fees the company will be forced into bankruptcy and nobody will get anything from Eel River Sawmills because the shares will be worthless.

Dennis Scott

Worthless piece of society.

Victor Thompson

He who knows nothing, loves nothing./ He who can do nothing understands nothing./ He who understands nothing is worthless.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Thomas Browne, Sr.