Once Useful Quotes
- Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful… — Al Gore
- Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson
- Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful.… — Jhumpa Lahiri