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1  He did not do so, however, because he knew that it was useless.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  It was quite useless to think of hiding it, but he could at least make sure whether or not its existence had been discovered.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  Presently they were in among a clump of ragged leafless shrubs, useless either for concealment or as protection from the wind.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  A sort of intellectual warmth, the joy of the pedant who has found out some useless fact, shone through the dirt and scrubby hair.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  The thing was doubly attractive because of its apparent uselessness, though he could guess that it must once have been intended as a paperweight.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  They remembered a million useless things, a quarrel with a workmate, a hunt for a lost bicycle pump, the expression on a long-dead sister's face, the swirls of dust on a windy morning seventy years ago: but all the relevant facts were outside the range of their vision.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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