Useful Quotes
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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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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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Some things that are true are not very useful.
Boyd K. Packer
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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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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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Simeone sent me a message saying that I would play a lot and would be useful," he explained.
Gelson Martins
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You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.
Dan Wieden
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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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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
Lao Tzu
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The lowest steps of the ladder are as useful as the highest.
Augustus De Morgan
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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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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Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
Cynthia Lord
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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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There was no saying what might come in useful some day.
G.A. Henty
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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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Hollywood! It’s like an old chair – if it’s useful, keep it; if not, give it to Goodwill.
Sylvia Sidney
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Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
Susanna Clarke
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
George Eliot
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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