Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

Haruki Murakami

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Tags: goals dreams security futility aspirations castles-in-the-air foundations work-lost



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...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tags: shakespeare futility foolishness



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He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.'
'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.'
'What's so negative about it?' I said.
'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said.
'"Ignorance,"' I said.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tags: inspirational ignorance futility



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Life ... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Søren Kierkegaard

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(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute

Bruce Sterling

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The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place.

Or, at least not yet again.

As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.

Vera Nazarian

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

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