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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus

Thought Hopeless Fall Own Back Top Punishment Futile Dreadful Would Some More Had Weight Rock Condemned Labor Mountain Than Gods Stone Rolling Whence Reason

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people. Nelson Mandela

Savage Government Peace People Futile Unarmed About Only Attacks Feel Talking Non-Violence Continue Reply Against Useless Who Many Whose

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. Regina Brett

Futile Chocolate Resistance

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. John Perry Barlow

Together People Matter Long Half Futile Ourselves Pursue Outset Knew Missing Most Real Were Years Did Real Thing Where Either Fantasy Dismiss Search Found Thing

What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Martha Beck

Stress Enough Wave Waves Futile Willing Bad Rises Emotional Never Feel Sure Parts Accepted Without Discomfort Falls Often Happens Us Avoidance Series Each Away Treasures Imagined

I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile. Alec Baldwin

People Communicate Try Futile More Bother Audience Any Conversations Used

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous. Ameen Rihani

Value Deficiencies Indeed States Futile Would Would-Be Various Purpose Individuals Import Underlying Without Always Sublime Impulse Forms Them Working

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president. Andrew Rosenthal

Day Great Great Deal Made Three Oppose President President Obama Everything Those Futile Obama Finding Compromises Had He Clear Failed Since Devoted Him Deal Years Effort Wanted Republicans Plan Inaugurated Then View Congressional Paint Nearly

Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail. Anne Sexton

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. Arianna Huffington

Women Differences Characteristics Futile Sexes Would Would-Be Pretense Ability Attempt Masculine Between Attitudes Disastrous Suppress Force Female Fit Up Pattern Them Skills Specifically Keeping

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me. Arjun Kapoor

Me Relationship Will Futile Must Physicality Stimulation Intellectual Just Based

Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games. Ehud Olmert

Word Nothing Futile Mutual Dictates Accusation Games Useless

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile. Irwin Redlener

War Overwhelming Mind-Set Locked Futile Has-Been Kind Would Would-Be Scenario Still Been Any Transition Preparedness Nuclear Nuclear War

I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly. Jack Keane

War Time Democracy People Progress Political Will Long Long Time Believe Futile See Some Rather Support Sure Protracted Test Quickly Begins Any Then Useless Wars Evaporate Appears

I've made two finals, and I'm up against guys who have won over 30 grand slams between them. But it's been great for the sport. You have to figure it out. Wishing for something else is futile. Kevin Anderson

Great You Made Else Finals Futile Out Something Something Else Guys Between Over Wishing Sport Been Up Won Grand Against Grand Slams Them Figure Who Two

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar. Lee Loevinger

People Television Futile More More People Laying Beat Lays Like Goose Caviar Than Eggs Scrambled Golden Anyway Fatal

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Hope Home Family Will Worldly Futile Solve Force Makes How Cure Impulse Children Conflicts Might Teaches Right Violence

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