Useful Quotes
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The lowest steps of the ladder are as useful as the highest.
Augustus De Morgan
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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
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
Sallust
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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
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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.
John Calvin
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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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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
Carole Wilkinson
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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
Melissa Bank
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There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.
Christopher Peterson
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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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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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
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I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Paul Dudley White
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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.
Socrates
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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.
Ada Limon
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
Cynthia Lord
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Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles
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A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.
Monica Dolan
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Blockchain assets derive value from their usefulness. Bitcoin has value because people value the payment network. BTC is required to use the network, so people demand it. If Bitcoin continues to be useful, it will continue to have value.
Nick Tomaino
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Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
Adelaide Hasse
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
George Eliot
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Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
Susanna Clarke
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Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now.
Bob Bemer
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In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.
Noga Alon