Useful Quotes
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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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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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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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Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
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There was no saying what might come in useful some day.
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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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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
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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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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
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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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The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
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Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
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He's been very useful for us in a whole bunch of different areas this year.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
