Useful Quotes
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I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.
Victor LaValle
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“I am so useful. I am not alone. And neither is he. “It must be nice,” said Aubergine suddenly, “to have a friend like that, and like things so much.” Yes.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.
Manoj Bhargava
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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.
Malcolm Gladwell
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
Jack Kilby
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
Abraham Flexner
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
Jack Vance
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One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Idries Shah
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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.
David Wallace Crowder
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.
Lao Tzu
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The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.
Oswald Chambers
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
Yotam Ottolenghi
