"True science is distinctively the study of useless……" — Charles Sanders Peirce

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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;… — Aristotle
• The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;… — Charles Babbage
• Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their… — Conrad Black
• U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with… — Bono
• The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute… — Jean de la Bruyere
• By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. — James Buchan
• Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while… — James Buchan
• At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call,… — James Buchan
• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all… — Edmund Burke
• There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne
• It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the… — Nicolas Chamfort
• Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual… — William Ellery Channing

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