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Do Something Small But Useful Now. -- Bob Bemer
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. -- C. S. Lewis
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all -- Socrates
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. -- Stephen King
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. -- Salman Rushdie
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. -- Anne Roiphe
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. -- Karl Marx
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. -- Chanakya
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. -- C. S. Lewis
My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself. -- Nina Conti
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. -- William Morris
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Bernard Shaw
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. -- Benjamin Franklin
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. -- Charles Darwin
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. -- Samuel Johnson
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. -- Bertrand Russell
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. -- George Washington
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. -- William J. Clinton
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. -- Evelyn Waugh
Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology. -- Sarah Parcak
I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality. -- Michelle Bachelet
I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little. -- John Howe
I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me. -- Lea Thompson
Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful. -- Ben Parr
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us. -- Saint Ignatius
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means. -- P. T. Barnum
To stay youthful, stay useful. -- John Keats
It's useful because it's beautiful. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Information wants to be useful. -- Larry Wall
Be useful where thou livest. -- George Herbert
Be strong to be useful. -- Georges Hebert
a poet never feels useful. -- May Sarton
I aspire to be useful. -- Anthony Foxx
The above proposition is occasionally useful. -- Bertrand Russell
I find humming is very useful. -- Elvis Costello
Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Always desire to learn something useful. -- Sophocles
Always desire to learn something useful -- Sophocles
Nothing is more useful than silence. -- Menander
Art is as useful as bread. -- Azar Nafisi
The most useful is the greatest. -- Theodore Parker
Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
Only the rational and useful is beautiful. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job. -- George Bernard Shaw
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive. -- Samuel R. Delany
Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful. -- Roger Housden
Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters. -- Isaac Asimov
Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. -- Annie Dillard
A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. -- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more useful than the useless. -- Roger Scruton
I like being mistaken for someone useful. -- Helen Humphreys
Take what's useful, discard what is not. -- Bruce Lee
Every hour of useful work is precious. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Acting has been very useful to me. -- Jane Asher
I like to be useful to people. -- Miuccia Prada
I am a maker of useful things. -- Eva Zeisel
Data is not useful until it becomes information. -- Seth Godin
Her failure was a useful preliminary to success. -- Edith Wharton
Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas. -- Mandell Creighton
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. -- Benjamin Franklin
Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The useful and the beautiful are never separated. -- Periander
Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. -- Cynthia Lord
All models are wrong; some models are useful. -- W. Edwards Deming
But that which is useful is the better. -- Marcus Aurelius
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful. -- Winston Churchill
In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I lie a lot - it's really useful. -- Steven Morrissey
All models are wrong, but some are useful. -- George E. P. Box
A lighthouse is more useful than a church. -- Benjamin Franklin
Innovation is new stuff that is made useful. -- Max McKeown
If you want to stay youthful, stay useful. -- Harvey Mackay
Volunteer. Find ways to be useful. Be kind. -- Claudia Black
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
While we're in the dream, these are useful notions. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful. -- John Green
Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid. -- Henry Ford
Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years. -- Katherine Paterson
Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat. -- Maureen Johnson
Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. -- Rosalind Kaplan
The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness. -- Tom Robbins
Can anything that is useful be accomplished without change? -- Marcus Aurelius
Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential. -- Ron Kaufman
Love comes into being through useful service to others. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. -- Joseph Murray
Lose no time; be always employed in something useful. -- Benjamin Franklin
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. -- Christian Lous Lange
It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Information is only useful when it can be understood -- Muriel Cooper
Canada is useful only to provide me with furs. -- Madame de Pompadour
Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me. -- James McAvoy
Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force -- Jenny Holzer
I have no useful theories about love and marriage. -- Michael Cunningham
If you aren't rich you should always look useful. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Stop trying to be amazing and start being useful. -- Jay Baer
The world forgets about people who are not useful. -- Alain Ducasse
Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain -- Latin Proverb
Some things that are true are not very useful. -- Boyd K. Packer
It was so useful to lie with the truth. -- Tanith Lee
We often despise what is most useful to us. -- Aesop
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. -- Thomas Mann
A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Any program is only as good as it is useful. -- Linus Torvalds
Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful. -- Timothy Keller
Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful. -- John Stuart Mill
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose -- Eckhart Tolle
Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems. -- David Ignatius
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. -- Harold MacMillan
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. -- Henry David Thoreau
My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. -- Alice Walker
Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful. -- Regina Brett
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. -- Milton Friedman
Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly. -- John Wesley
Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful. -- James Surowiecki

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