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Tag Name "Useful" (1364)

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It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
A. A. Milne
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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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Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
Alfred Adler
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What is a good man? Simply one whose life is useful to the world. And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others. There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness. These are the worst of all.
Zhang Zhao
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There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more useful photographers.
Fred Ritchin
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The useful and the beautiful are never separated.
Periander
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As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.
Richard P. Feynman
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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
Michael Cunningham
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It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.
Lucy Lawless
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I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that.
Russell Simmons
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Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.
Evan Davis
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There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.
Lawrence Giustiniani
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The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve - and self-awareness - to make a change.
Bret Stephens
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Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
Seth Godin
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…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
Louisa May Alcott
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Data is not useful until it becomes information.
Seth Godin
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The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.
Joshua Reynolds
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Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.
Neil Gaiman
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I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
Elizabeth Fry
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Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
Terry Pratchett
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
Nicolas Malebranche
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
Mos Def
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Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.
Stewart D. Friedman
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That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.
J. K. Rowling
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