Useful Quotes
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It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.
Aristotle -
Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.
Amadeo Bordiga -
You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.
Tracy Reese -
To some men knowledge of the universe has been an end possessing in itself a value that is absolute: to others it has seemed a means of useful applications.
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood -
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
Seneca the Younger -
Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
Lao Tzu -
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Jane Austen -
Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
Just because information is stolen, that doesn't make it more useful.
B. R. Hayden -
Simeone sent me a message saying that I would play a lot and would be useful," he explained.
Gelson Martins -
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour.
George Bernard Shaw -
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
Samuel R. Delany
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
Epictetus -
Some things that are true are not very useful.
Boyd K. Packer -
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
Oscar Wilde -
Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.
George Eliot -
If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.
Allison Mackie
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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
Lao Tzu -
Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
Victor Hugo -
It will be useful for you to know your biological age and maybe to change your lifestyle habits if you find you have short telomeres.
María Blasco Marhuenda -
Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
Cynthia Lord