Useful Quotes
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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
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It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.
Charles Dickens
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All this fighting stems from the illusion that people choose to learn a language for rational reasons, that they are looking for the language that has the most useful features, the best agenda. But no one is out there comparison shopping for an artificial language. They find what they like, and there's no accounting for taste.
Arika Okrent
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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
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
Jules Verne
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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make 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
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
Boyd K. Packer
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
Epictetus
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You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.
Tracy Reese
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Just because information is stolen, that doesn't make it more useful.
B. R. Hayden
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
Seneca the Younger
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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
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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
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You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.
Dan Wieden
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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
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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
Lao Tzu
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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
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Simeone sent me a message saying that I would play a lot and would be useful," he explained.
Gelson Martins
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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.
Lao Tzu
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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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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Victor Hugo