Useful Quotes
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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.
Cynthia Lord
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
Sallust
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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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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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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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Simeone sent me a message saying that I would play a lot and would be useful," he explained.
Gelson Martins
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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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Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
Cynthia Lord
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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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I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Paul Dudley White
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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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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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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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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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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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Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
Cynthia Lord
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There was no saying what might come in useful some day.
G.A. Henty
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Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
Susanna Clarke
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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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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
George Eliot