Useful Quotes

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The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into… — Betty Friedan
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams
A lighthouse is more useful than a church. — Benjamin Franklin
Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer. — George Washington
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. — Thomas Paine
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent… — Eugene V. Debs
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am… — Jonathan Swift
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real… — Erich Fromm
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must… — William James
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool… — Joan Didion
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working… — Karl Marx
The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world… — Martin Heidegger
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. — Unknown Author
Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more… — Charles Babbage
A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted. — Vannevar Bush
The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this… — Sandra Day O'Connor
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs. — John Brunner
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to… — Diana Wynne Jones
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped. — Sonia Sotomayor
It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of… — John Paul Stevens
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the… — Nathan Hale
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. — Walter Jon Williams

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