Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy. — Stacy London Copy Share Image
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“Earth that is electrified by the electrical utility system is a known human health hazard.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper… — Johannes Itten Copy Share Image
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure? — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility. — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing,… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience.… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“Though designing the house in which modern rational choice/utility/decision theory would inhabit, it is not clear that Ramsey would have chosen to… — Cheryl Misak Copy Share Image
We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money. — Phil Crosby Copy Share Image
The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology. — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
“I research what electrical utility companies do not want researched.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
