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Tag Name "Useful" (1356)

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Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.
Henry Parry Liddon
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Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.
Paulo Coelho
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust
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Consciousness, according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The self was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.
Robert Charles Wilson
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
Gore Vidal
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I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
Sally Schneider
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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
Robert Genn
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.
Grace Paley
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I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life.
Sam Maloof
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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.
Grenville Kleiser
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A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
Samuel Eliot Morison
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I don't think it's particularly useful to be going to another country and staying in a classroom and just studying in the classroom. What's important, I think, is to get immersed into the local economy.
Robert J. Dolan
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People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.
Gunnar Myrdal
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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
George Mikes
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson
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Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.
Robert P. Crease
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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord
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I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
George R. R. Martin
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
Samuel Johnson
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