Useful Quotes
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Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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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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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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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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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
George Bernard Shaw
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Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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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 is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
Epictetus
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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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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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Just because information is stolen, that doesn't make it more useful.
B. R. Hayden
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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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Some things that are true are not very useful.
Boyd K. Packer
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
Jules Verne
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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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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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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
Lao Tzu
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You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.
Dan Wieden
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The lowest steps of the ladder are as useful as the highest.
Augustus De Morgan
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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