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Do Something Small But Useful Now. Votes: 3

Bob Bemer

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'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. Votes: 3

C. S. Lewis

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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. Votes: 3

Mahatma Gandhi

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If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all Votes: 3

Socrates

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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. Votes: 2

Stephen King

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. Votes: 2

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. Votes: 2

Salman Rushdie

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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. Votes: 2

Anne Roiphe

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Votes: 2

Karl Marx

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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. Votes: 2

Chanakya

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. Votes: 2

C. S. Lewis

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My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself. Votes: 2

Nina Conti

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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. Votes: 2

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. Votes: 2

William Morris

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Votes: 2

George Bernard Shaw

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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Votes: 2

Benjamin Franklin

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Votes: 2

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. Votes: 2

Charles Darwin

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. Votes: 2

Samuel Johnson

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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. Votes: 2

Bertrand Russell

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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. Votes: 2

George Washington

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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. Votes: 2

William J. Clinton

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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. Votes: 2

Evelyn Waugh

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Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology. Votes: 2

Sarah Parcak

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I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality. Votes: 2

Michelle Bachelet

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I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little. Votes: 2

John Howe

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I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me. Votes: 2

Lea Thompson

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Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful. Votes: 2

Ben Parr

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Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us. Votes: 2

Saint Ignatius

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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means. Votes: 2

P. T. Barnum

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Be strong to be useful. Votes: 1

Georges Hebert

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Take what's useful, discard what is not. Votes: 1

Bruce Lee

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A lighthouse is more useful than a church. Votes: 1

Benjamin Franklin

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To stay youthful, stay useful. Votes: 0

John Keats

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It's useful because it's beautiful. Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Information wants to be useful. Votes: 0

Larry Wall

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Be useful where thou livest. Votes: 0

George Herbert

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a poet never feels useful. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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I aspire to be useful. Votes: 0

Anthony Foxx

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Art is as useful as bread. Votes: 0

Azar Nafisi

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The most useful is the greatest. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker

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The above proposition is occasionally useful. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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I find humming is very useful. Votes: 0

Elvis Costello

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Nothing is more useful than silence. Votes: 0

Menander

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Always desire to learn something useful Votes: 0

Sophocles

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Always desire to learn something useful. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent. Votes: 0

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice. Votes: 0

Jean Baptiste Massillon

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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov

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Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful. Votes: 0

Roger Housden

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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Only the rational and useful is beautiful. Votes: 0

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Endings to be useful must be inconclusive. Votes: 0

Samuel R. Delany

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Every hour of useful work is precious. Votes: 0

William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals. Votes: 0

Benoit Mandelbrot

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I like being mistaken for someone useful. Votes: 0

Helen Humphreys

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Nothing is more useful than the useless. Votes: 0

Roger Scruton

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I am a maker of useful things. Votes: 0

Eva Zeisel

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I like to be useful to people. Votes: 0

Miuccia Prada

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Acting has been very useful to me. Votes: 0

Jane Asher

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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. Votes: 0

Cynthia Lord

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The useful and the beautiful are never separated. Votes: 0

Periander

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Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas. Votes: 0

Mandell Creighton

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Data is not useful until it becomes information. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Her failure was a useful preliminary to success. Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later. Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein

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I lie a lot - it's really useful. Votes: 0

Steven Morrissey

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All models are wrong, but some are useful. Votes: 0

George E. P. Box

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Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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Volunteer. Find ways to be useful. Be kind. Votes: 0

Claudia Black

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Innovation is new stuff that is made useful. Votes: 0

Max McKeown

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If you want to stay youthful, stay useful. Votes: 0

Harvey Mackay

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But that which is useful is the better. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All models are wrong; some models are useful. Votes: 0

W. Edwards Deming

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Information is only useful when it can be understood Votes: 0

Muriel Cooper

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While we're in the dream, these are useful notions. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid. Votes: 0

Henry Ford

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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years. Votes: 0

Katherine Paterson

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Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. Votes: 0

Rosalind Kaplan

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Can anything that is useful be accomplished without change? Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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Love comes into being through useful service to others. Votes: 0

Emanuel Swedenborg

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The highest good and solely useful is liberal education. Votes: 0

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. Votes: 0

Joseph Murray

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Lose no time; be always employed in something useful. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential. Votes: 0

Ron Kaufman

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Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful. Votes: 0

John Green

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Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. Votes: 0

Christian Lous Lange

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Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force Votes: 0

Jenny Holzer

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Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat. Votes: 0

Maureen Johnson

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We often despise what is most useful to us. Votes: 0

Aesop

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The world forgets about people who are not useful. Votes: 0

Alain Ducasse

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Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me. Votes: 0

James McAvoy

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I have no useful theories about love and marriage. Votes: 0

Michael Cunningham

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If you aren't rich you should always look useful. Votes: 0

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Some things that are true are not very useful. Votes: 0

Boyd K. Packer

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A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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It was so useful to lie with the truth. Votes: 0

Tanith Lee

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Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain Votes: 0

Latin Proverb

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Canada is useful only to provide me with furs. Votes: 0

Madame de Pompadour

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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. Votes: 0

Thomas Mann

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Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful. Votes: 0

Timothy Keller

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Any program is only as good as it is useful. Votes: 0

Linus Torvalds

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Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful. Votes: 0

John Stuart Mill

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The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems. Votes: 0

David Ignatius

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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. Votes: 0

Harold MacMillan

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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose Votes: 0

Eckhart Tolle

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Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful. Votes: 0

Regina Brett

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In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. Votes: 0

Milton Friedman

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Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly. Votes: 0

John Wesley

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Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful. Votes: 0

James Surowiecki

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My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. Votes: 0

Alice Walker

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I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere. Votes: 0

Cass McCombs

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If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me. Votes: 0

Tamora Pierce

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. Votes: 0

Guy Debord

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A belief is not true simply because it is useful. Votes: 0

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful. Votes: 0

Richard Stallman

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... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences. Votes: 0

Roger Bacon

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Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. Votes: 0

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

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I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing. Votes: 0

Anthony Bourdain

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Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews. Votes: 0

Heidi Julavits

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Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh. Votes: 0

Austin O'Malley

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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Votes: 0

Rumer Godden

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To lose your temper is only useful once a year. Votes: 0

Colin R. Davis

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Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Pfeffer

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I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion. Votes: 0

Heidi Julavits

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I am still alive then. That may come in useful. Votes: 0

Samuel Beckett

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Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience. Votes: 0

Lotte Lenya

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To lose your temper is only useful once a year. Votes: 0

Colin Davis

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I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence. Votes: 0

Shirin Ebadi

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Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big Votes: 0

Lisa Genova

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Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind. Votes: 0

Roberto Cavalli

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Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant. Votes: 0

Charlie Munger

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We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. Votes: 0

Mitchell Baker

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Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable Votes: 0

Kevin Systrom

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Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God. Votes: 0

Milton S. Hershey

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You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes. Votes: 0

Dan Wieden

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Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters. Votes: 0

William Kristol

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Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. Votes: 0

Richard Whately

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Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful. Votes: 0

Andrea Arnold

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In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful. Votes: 0

Philip Hart

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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful. Votes: 0

Sallust

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Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful. Votes: 0

Susanna Clarke

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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking. Votes: 0

Richard Stallman

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Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the Votes: 0

Henry Calvert Simons

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Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it. Votes: 0

Jay Baer

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The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Votes: 0

William Bourke Cockran

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Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. Votes: 0

Jerry Saltz

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At times people in the press were also useful to me. Votes: 0

Garry Winogrand

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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps. Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful. Votes: 0

Laozi

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It's always useful to be in big movies for one's career. Votes: 0

Jeremy Irons

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The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open. Votes: 0

Walter Gropius

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A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. Votes: 0

Washington Irving

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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing. Votes: 0

Bernard Crick

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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful. Votes: 0

Carole Wilkinson

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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews. Votes: 0

Bob Woodward

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He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep. Votes: 0

Dorothy Eden

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What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you. Votes: 0

J. Cornell Michel

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The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM. Votes: 0

Paul Volcker

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Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things. Votes: 0

Jules Verne

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I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society. Votes: 0

John Cameron

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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends . Votes: 0

Baltasar Gracian

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Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly. Votes: 0

Theophile Gautier

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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Votes: 0

Ovid

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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is. Votes: 0

Adam D'Angelo

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The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. Votes: 0

Alfred Adler

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There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities. Votes: 0

Louis Bachelier

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To be creative, an idea must also be appropriateuseful and actionable. Votes: 0

Teresa Amabile

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Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources. Votes: 0

Santosh Kalwar

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Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. Votes: 0

Stephen Ambrose

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Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. Votes: 0

Kin Hubbard

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Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining Votes: 0

Julian Burnside

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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power. Votes: 0

Sallust

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Science can be useful, or it can just get in the way. Votes: 0

Karl King

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Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately? Votes: 0

Bruce Willis

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It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are. Votes: 0

Ovid

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The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives. Votes: 0

Henry A. Kissinger

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Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. Votes: 0

John Ralston Saul

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The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found. Votes: 0

Judith Perelman Rossner

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Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame... Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken. Votes: 0

Richelle Mead

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My problem is how to find the best way of being useful. Votes: 0

Jacques Delors

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And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world Votes: 0

Jacques Ellul

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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. Votes: 0

Stendhal

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I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen. Votes: 0

Cheech Marin

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Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are. Votes: 0

Arianna Huffington

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Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful. Votes: 0

Steven A. Cohen

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For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible. Votes: 0

Heather Brooke

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Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple. Votes: 0

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people. Votes: 0

Drew Houston

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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience. Votes: 0

Marissa Mayer

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The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. Rage. Votes: 0

Tara Moss

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Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going. Votes: 0

Kate Tempest

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It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. Votes: 0

John Stuart Mill

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You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL! Votes: 0

Laura Fitton

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Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble. Votes: 0

Patanjali

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Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer. Votes: 0

Piet Zwart

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Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man Votes: 0

George Washington

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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. Votes: 0

John Barnes

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In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy

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The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental. Votes: 0

James J. Hill

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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. Votes: 0

Charles Lamb

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Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one. Votes: 0

Mira Grant

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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. Votes: 0

Rowan Atkinson

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The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy. Votes: 0

Elbert Hubbard

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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. Votes: 0

Walter Jon Williams

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Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles. Votes: 0

Mia Wasikowska

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I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country. Votes: 0

Cornelia Fort

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He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point . Votes: 0

Horace

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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility. Votes: 0

Ovid

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Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful. Votes: 0

Ziggy Marley

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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful. Votes: 0

Laozi

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Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things. Votes: 0

Leo Lionni

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Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations. Votes: 0

Augustus De Morgan

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Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake. Votes: 0

David Shannon

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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Take what's useful, leave out what's useless, and add a bit of yourself! Votes: 0

Manuel Neuer

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Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful? Votes: 0

Aprilynne Pike

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As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too. Votes: 0

Jamais Cascio

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Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebody's way. Votes: 0

Ashleigh Brilliant

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There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. Votes: 0

Arthur Phillips

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The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. Votes: 0

Donna Farhi

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A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful. Votes: 0

Horace

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Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky

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Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently. Votes: 0

Tania Bruguera

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Itâs useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war. Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. Votes: 0

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later. Votes: 0

R. K. Milholland

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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Votes: 0

Richard P. Feynman

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The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people. Votes: 0

Frank Zappa

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In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination. Votes: 0

David Harsanyi

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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. Votes: 0

Sallust

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If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing. Votes: 0

Swami Satchidananda

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Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. Votes: 0

David Hume

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I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful. Votes: 0

Alistair Begg

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There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place. Votes: 0

Alex Steffen

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We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union. Votes: 0

Martti Ahtisaari

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Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful. Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower. Votes: 0

Thomas A. Stewart

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There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle

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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father. Votes: 0

Saadi

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The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. Votes: 0

Lucien Febvre

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Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. Votes: 0

Mark Rippetoe

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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. Votes: 0

Walter Darby Bannard

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In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. Votes: 0

George Orwell

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There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose. Votes: 0

Ovid

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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful. Votes: 0

Warwick Davis

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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. Votes: 0

Gary Wolf

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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date. Votes: 0

Izaak Walton

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Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. Votes: 0

Bruce Lee

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I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. Votes: 0

Lee Child

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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful. Votes: 0

Big Boi

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I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. Votes: 0

Joe Murray

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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. Votes: 0

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff. Votes: 0

Henry A. Kissinger

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Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful? Votes: 0

Pietros Maneos

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Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind. Votes: 0

Andrew Weil

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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Votes: 0

Charles Bradlaugh

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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators. Votes: 0

Dean DeBlois

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Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful. Votes: 0

Patricia Briggs

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What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful... Votes: 0

Michelle Obama

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Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that. Votes: 0

Andrew Weil

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C'est vÃ©ritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful. Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose. Votes: 0

Kevin Spacey

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I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless. Votes: 0

Erlend Loe

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Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow. Votes: 0

Susan Wojcicki

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Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. Votes: 0

Rob Pike

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Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature. Votes: 0

Guthrie Govan

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Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs. Votes: 0

Arnold Bennett

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Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching. Votes: 0

Baltasar Gracian

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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums, Votes: 0

Banksy

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Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade. Votes: 0

Brandon Boyd

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. Votes: 0

Nicholson Baker

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Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful. Votes: 0

Robert Stone

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It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money. Votes: 0

Jacques Pepin

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You want to do things you're passionate about but also are useful to other people. Votes: 0

Elon Musk

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Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. Votes: 0

Grenville Kleiser

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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80. Votes: 0

Peter Greenaway

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It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know. Votes: 0

Leon Battista Alberti

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I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup. Votes: 0

Mary-Louise Parker

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When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit. Votes: 0

Idries Shah

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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Votes: 0

Emanuel Swedenborg

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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. Votes: 0

Rowan Atkinson

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so. Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour. Votes: 0

Henry Allingham

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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Votes: 0

Saint Teresa of Avila

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You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing. Votes: 0

Julia Stiles

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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine. Votes: 0

Hafsat Abiola

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Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Votes: 0

Teresa of Avila

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The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men. Votes: 0

Anthony Trollope

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The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister. Votes: 0

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality. Votes: 0

Jaume Collet-Serra

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I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. Votes: 0

John Cameron

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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused. Votes: 0

Charles R. Swindoll

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Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like. Votes: 0

Ellen Terry

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Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now. Votes: 0

Bob Bemer

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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china. Votes: 0

Rebecca West

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". Votes: 0

Alan Perlis

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. Votes: 0

Alan Perlis

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I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! Votes: 0

Romola Garai

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It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage. Votes: 0

David Galula

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I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings. Votes: 0

Bill Keller

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Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. Votes: 0

Satya Nadella

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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria. Votes: 0

Larry Wall

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Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with. Votes: 0

George Soros

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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful. Votes: 0

Timothy Keller

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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world. Votes: 0

Ida Tarbell

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Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . . Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. Votes: 0

John Burnham Schwartz

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them. Votes: 0

Giacomo Leopardi

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Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. Votes: 0

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. Votes: 0

Austin O'Malley

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Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped. Votes: 0

Sonia Sotomayor

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Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. Votes: 0

Henry Ford

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It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit. Votes: 0

James W. Loewen

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People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world. Votes: 0

Natalie Babbitt

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I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it. Votes: 0

Paul Dudley White

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From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. Votes: 0

Mary McLeod Bethune

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The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful. Votes: 0

James D. Sass

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The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. Votes: 0

Henry Adams

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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Votes: 0

Henri Poincare

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I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs. Votes: 0

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. Votes: 0

Alice Walker

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Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live. Votes: 0

Henry Ford

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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful. Votes: 0

Laozi

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I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful. Votes: 0

Enid Blyton

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Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. Votes: 0

Cormac McCarthy

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. Votes: 0

Bill McKibben

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Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done Votes: 0

Timothy Geithner

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He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. Votes: 0

Horace

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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. Votes: 0

Herbie Hancock

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Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration. Votes: 0

G. D. H. Cole

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Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. Votes: 0

Theophile Gautier

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I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one. Votes: 0

Ryan Shawcross

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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Votes: 0

Antisthenes

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Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better. Votes: 0

Catherine Tate

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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. Votes: 0

Henri Frederic Amiel

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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. Votes: 0

Man Ray

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Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. Votes: 0

Paul Giamatti

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Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. Votes: 0

Dan Millman

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It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. Votes: 0

Luc Montagnier

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It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't. Votes: 0

A. A. Milne

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The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today. Votes: 0

Noga Alon

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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful. Votes: 0

Plato

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Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. Votes: 0

Francis of Assisi

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She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others. Votes: 0

Lisa Kleypas

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The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject. Votes: 0

Walter Raleigh

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It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. Votes: 0

Stanislaw Ulam

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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced. Votes: 0

Eleanor Roosevelt

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off. Votes: 0

Nicky Gumbel

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I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful. Votes: 0

Manoj Bhargava

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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. Votes: 0

Zhuangzi

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The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions Votes: 0

Miyamoto Musashi

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Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. Votes: 0

Laozi

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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. Votes: 0

Charles de Gaulle

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Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it. Votes: 0

Sharon Creech

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In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. Votes: 0

Maurice de Vlaminck

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Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. Votes: 0

Robert Shea

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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop Votes: 0

Charles de Gaulle

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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late. Votes: 0

Lev Grossman

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In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability. Votes: 0

Rob Hopkins

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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. Votes: 0

James F. Cooper

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Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. Votes: 0

Alexander Hamilton

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Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. Votes: 0

Anatole Broyard

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Votes: 0

Booker T. Washington

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Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit. Votes: 0

Todd Park

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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... Votes: 0

Larry Wall

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. Votes: 0

Margaret Spellings

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No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value. Votes: 0

Benjamin Hoff

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Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Votes: 0

Joan Didion

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Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith

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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last. Votes: 0

Josephus Daniels

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God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story. Votes: 0

Louie Giglio

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I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again. Votes: 0

Steve Hamilton

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But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. Votes: 0

Nikolai Gogol

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The act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now. Votes: 0

Stewart D. Friedman

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To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be. Votes: 0

Marc Jacobs

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. Votes: 0

Dag Hammarskjold

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Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't. Votes: 0

Cullen Hightower

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Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work. Votes: 0

Max McKeown

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I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music. Votes: 0

John Tesh

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If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool. Votes: 0

Colin Powell

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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. Votes: 0

Alexandre Dumas

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It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action. Votes: 0

Joe Sacco

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To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good. Votes: 0

Alexis de Tocqueville

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A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it Votes: 0

Richard P. Feynman

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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Votes: 0

Frank Lloyd Wright

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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. Votes: 0

Marie Curie

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It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. Votes: 0

Vladimir Lenin

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When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel. Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. Votes: 0

Lauren Oliver

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly. Votes: 0

Adam Michnik

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The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. Votes: 0

John Godfrey Saxe

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A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away. Votes: 0

Shintaro Ishihara

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Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile. Votes: 0

Adelaide Hasse

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Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others. Votes: 0

Paul Laseau

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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman. Votes: 0

Arthur Conan Doyle

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I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again. Votes: 0

George Carlin

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Votes: 0

Frederick Douglass

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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best. Votes: 0

Stephen Cole

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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. Votes: 0

Bertolt Brecht

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[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here. Votes: 0

Pankaj Ghemawat

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There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass. Votes: 0

Lawrence Giustiniani

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Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer. Votes: 0

Amy Bloom

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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked. Votes: 0

Karen Marie Moning

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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink. Votes: 0

Dorothy Parker

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When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name. Votes: 0

Vilfredo Pareto

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It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him. Votes: 0

Faina Ranevskaya

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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. Votes: 0

Michael Caine

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You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen. Votes: 0

John Adams

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The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful. Votes: 0

Mary-Louise Parker

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I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head. Votes: 0

Russell Hoban

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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. Votes: 0

Anatole France

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If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made. Votes: 0

Matt Lucas

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I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another. Votes: 0

Barbara Brown Taylor

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Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. Votes: 0

Isaac

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Stop trying to be amazing and start being useful.

Jay Baer

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â¦to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

Louisa May Alcott

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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Alexander Pushkin

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It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Antonio Tabucchi

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It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

Charles Darwin

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All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.

Jay Baer

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The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

John Mortimer

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Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Eric Hoffer

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The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?

Estelle Ramey

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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

George Mikes

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Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.

J. K. Rowling

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A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

Martin Fowler

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Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

Philip Kitcher

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Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

Ricky Gervais

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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

Carson Kressley

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She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

Christopher Hitchens

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Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels' should be the slogan of every farmer.

George Washington

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Do not focus on being happy, focus on doing something useful; afterwards, happiness will flow towards you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

Samuel Johnson

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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

Jack Smith

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When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

Julia Cameron

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Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Victor Hugo

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I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

Alexander Hanson

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I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

Armand Hammer

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Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Frank Herbert

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It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Isaac Asimov

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Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

Kurt Vonnegut

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I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Leonardo da Vinci

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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

Gabriela Mistral

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You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

Iain Sinclair

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It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

Lucy Lawless

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Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

Eric S. Raymond

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To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

Samuel Eliot Morison

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I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

Al Gore

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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Lucretius

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Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Mark Zandi

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It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

Samuel Johnson

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You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

Alejandro Zambra

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Itâs only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

David Brooks

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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

H. L. Mencken

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Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

Alfonso X of Castile

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The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

Andrew Sullivan

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I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

David Remnick

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Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.

Jesse Torrey

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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

Tom Stoppard

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Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

George Gipps

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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Dan Inosanto

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If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world ...

Dorothy Nevill

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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway...

J. K. Rowling

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When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

Richard Mitchell

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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

Victor Cousin

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A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

Helen Keller

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I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

Jeff Britting

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The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Julia Ward Howe

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I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.

Sinead O'Connor

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Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.

Stewart D. Friedman

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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

Don Marquis

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The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.

Joe Grant

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In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

John Mulaney

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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

Melissa Bank

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A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Norbert Lynton

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What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Ovid

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Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.

Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

Alfred Adler

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To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

Andre Gide

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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Boethius

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If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Eugene Ionesco

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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Horace

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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible...

Tom Peters

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I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.

Brian Helgeland

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The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Cesare Beccaria

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Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Charles Baudelaire

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The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

Richard P. Feynman

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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

Laozi

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We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

Rafael Nadal

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The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

Richard Allen

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For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

Aldous Huxley

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What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

Jean Rostand

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To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

Richard Koch

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A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

Bill Vaughan

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Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

Braden Kelley

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The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

John Ortberg

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Don't worry that you've wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

Martha Beck

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When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

Penn Jillette

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I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Samuel Johnson

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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.

Thomas A. Edison

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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

John Calvin

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I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

Tony Blankley

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Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.

Travis Morrison

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Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

Alain de Botton

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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Aldous Huxley

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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Edward de Bono

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Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

Frankie Cosmos

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Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Hans Haacke

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The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.

Ian Bogost

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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

Larry Kramer

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I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Louisa May Alcott

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I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better.

Nick Kroll

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

Voltaire

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I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

Barack Obama

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I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

Elizabeth Fry

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A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

John Newton

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Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively than during my life.

Saint Dominic

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I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ...

Sam Maloof

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People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful

Kim Do-Jin

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I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

Paul Schrader

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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...

Ada Leverson

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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Anna Quindlen

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Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

Martin Fowler

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Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

Milton H. Erickson

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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

Pliny the Elder

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As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

Richard P. Feynman

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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

William James

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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

Arnold Bennett

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I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

Art Spiegelman

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You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Benjamin Franklin

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It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.

Derek Sivers

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A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.

Kenneth Tynan

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People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

Liberace

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Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Max Stirner

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The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

Toni Morrison

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Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it.

David Meerman Scott

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It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

Lewis Baltz

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Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

Maia Szalavitz

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The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

Thomas de Quincey

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A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Vannevar Bush

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Where would we be without inhibitions? Theyre quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

A. S. Byatt

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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

Eric Kripke

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The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

Leo Tolstoy

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Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.

Napoleon Hill

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

Voltaire

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The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.

Carl I. Hagen

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Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

Diogenes Laertius

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Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

Paulo Coelho

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Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

Howard Zinn

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[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

Karl Pilkington

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Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.

Lisa Unger

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I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

Liza Campbell

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The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

Lord Chesterfield

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I don't think vodka is useful. I think it's for people who don't like alcohol, in which case, you probably shouldn't be drinking it.

Rachel Maddow

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The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

Robert Breault

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The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

W. P. Kinsella

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Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

Alfie Kohn

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You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

Dean Acheson

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I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

John Baldessari

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I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

Marc Jacobs

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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Mark Twain

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Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

B. F. Skinner

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She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.

Kelley Armstrong

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In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.

Paulo Coelho

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One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.

Austin Farrer

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Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

Deepak Chopra

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Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

Ricky Gervais

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[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.

Adolf Hitler

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OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

Ambrose Bierce

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[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

Anthony Bourdain

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Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.

David Filo

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A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

George Berkeley

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The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

Irene Parlby

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Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Juliet Stevenson

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When you canât do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

Maurice Sendak

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When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

Melinda Gates

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Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.

Timothy Carey

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He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

James Allen

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Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy.

Martin Bormann

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Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

Michael Arndt

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Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

Piers Anthony

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The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

Ralph Marston

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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.

Samuel Johnson

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When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

Alice Walker

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What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Benjamin Franklin

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The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.

Jay Baer

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I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

Barack Obama

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The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

Benjamin Graham

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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

Hans Rosling

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For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

John Calvin

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In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.

Michael Bloomberg

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And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.

Suzanne Collins

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Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

Brigham Young

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Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

Claude Lelouch

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the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.

Thomas Jefferson

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Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

Harrison Ford

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No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

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I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

Neal Barnard

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Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

Simone de Beauvoir

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The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

Gary A. Klein

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There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.

Will Shetterly

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If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

Robert Baden-Powell

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If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

Shri Radhe Maa

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My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

Cassandra Clare

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Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it.

Edward Albee

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I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

Frank O'Hara

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The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

Eric Schlosser

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The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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People will urge you to go to school. Theyâll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80âs. You are here to hustle.

E. C. Osondu

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The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

Edward Tufte

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I actually have two hats in my office; one says "network," one says "studio." Paul Lee over at ABC sent those over to us and I find it very useful.

Gary Numan

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A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Henry David Thoreau

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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Edward de Bono

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Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

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Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

Roger Ebert

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Seneca the Younger

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The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

Thomas Paine

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Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

Tim Wirth

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To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

Angelina Jolie

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Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

Denise Scott Brown

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A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.

Eleftherios Venizelos

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Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.

Freddie Highmore

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People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

Gore Vidal

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I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

Grant Morrison

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The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

Millicent Fenwick

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Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.

Walter A. Shewhart

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A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

Albert Bandura

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Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

Bruce Lee

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That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

John Green

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The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

Rodney Crowell

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You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Seth Godin

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All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Vladimir Lenin

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Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.

Barack Obama

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I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure.

Harrison Ford

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I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Henry Moore

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I don't want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

Scott Berkun

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When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.

Suzanne Vega

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Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

Edward Bond

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Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.

Gerry McGovern

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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

Thomas Jefferson

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People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

Aaron Klug

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Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

Daniel Handler

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It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

Ken Livingstone

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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

Michel de Montaigne

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What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.

Tamora Pierce

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... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

Winston Churchill

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If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

Akiva Goldsman

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When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

Bill Viola

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I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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What did you do?" "Well, you see, there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there"¦" He trailed off. "Useful thing, tea," commented Lyall thoughtfully.

Gail Carriger

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A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

Terry Pratchett

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The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, "God save the Queen"; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

Winston Churchill

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God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord.

Vincent de Paul

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I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us.

Doris Lessing

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If you truly believe that what you have is useful and valuable to your clients, then you have a moral obligation to try to serve them in every way possible.

Jay Abraham

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It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

Phyllis Bentley

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It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

Reid Hoffman

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I'm suggesting that principles meant to deal with uncertainty that occurs naturally can be useful to manage the uncertainty that characterizes any new idea.

Scott D. Anthony

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It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided.

Barack Obama

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Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing.â

Charlie Munger

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Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

Jose Marti

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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

Robert G