Useful Quotes
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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.
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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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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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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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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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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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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There was no saying what might come in useful some day.
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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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He's been very useful for us in a whole bunch of different areas this year.
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
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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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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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Always desire to learn something useful.
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The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
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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 wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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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.
