Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes
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I like happy endings.
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.
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Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
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Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence.
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Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after.
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Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
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Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
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Something was being applied to the ball quite obviously and he must have known it. It's quite conclusive on film.
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Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
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I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.
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Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
