Useful Quotes
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If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all.
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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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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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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
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The lowest steps of the ladder are as useful as the highest.
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If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.
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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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Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
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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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Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.
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There was no saying what might come in useful some day.
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In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.
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He's been very useful for us in a whole bunch of different areas this year.
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The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
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Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
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If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.
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Hollywood! It’s like an old chair – if it’s useful, keep it; if not, give it to Goodwill.
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Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
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I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
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Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
