Useful Quotes
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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.
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Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
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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.
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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.
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Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.
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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
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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.
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It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
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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.
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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.)
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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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.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.
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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.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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Just because information is stolen, that doesn't make it more useful.
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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
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Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
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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.
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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.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
