Useful Quotes
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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.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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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.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.
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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.
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I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.
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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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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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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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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
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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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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
