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1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here. — Unknown Author
In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability. — Rob Hopkins
Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came… — Paul Rusesabagina
In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical… — Paola Antonelli
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing… — Vaclav Smil
The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have… — Unknown Author
I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country. — Cornelia Fort
Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology… — Peter J. Carroll
People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be… — Kim Do-Jin
Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take place by comparing… — Vera Stanley Alder
History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads,… — Ludwig von Mises
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film… — Sydney Pollack
The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't… — Eckhart Tolle
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at… — Henry Fielding
Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live. — Henry Ford
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes,… — Charles Caleb Colton
I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of… — Christopher Hitchens
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful. — Sallust
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service. — Napoleon Hill
What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not… — Joni Eareckson Tada
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a… — Joseph Campbell
The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial. — Edward Tufte
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. — James F. Cooper
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is… — Fritjof Capra
There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place. — Alex Steffen

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