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Tag Name "Serviceable" (43)

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Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
Bernard de Mandeville
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God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
Marcus Aurelius
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Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.
John Dewey
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It is a very easy thing to devise good laws the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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Because of the cumbersome nature of filmmaking, it's only recently that it has become available to the masses, with digital equipment and laptop computers. You can now actually make a pretty serviceable movie for very little money by yourself.
John Landis
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Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
Matthew Henry
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The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others
John Ruskin
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A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.
Marcus Aurelius
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A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
John Ruskin
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So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.
Plutarch
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Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.
E. V. Lucas
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There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.
James Berardinelli
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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton Juster
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I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.
Jonathan Swift
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Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.
Joseph Conrad
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Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices.
Tito Colliander
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Joseph Lancaster
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