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Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things. -- Nick Park
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. -- Victor Hugo
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II. -- Warren Christopher
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated. -- George Will
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. -- Stephen Dunn
My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals. -- Sally Phillips
I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times. -- Gary Numan
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them. -- Rosemary Mahoney
The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness. -- Tom Robbins
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing. -- Bernard Crick
The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM. -- Paul Volcker
The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience. -- Marissa Mayer
There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place. -- Alex Steffen
There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose. -- Ovid
When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit. -- Idries Shah
It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. -- John Burnham Schwartz
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. -- Alice Walker
I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful. -- Enid Blyton
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing. -- Julia Stiles
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions -- Miyamoto Musashi
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it -- Oscar Wilde
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. -- Alexander Hamilton
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good. -- Dalai Lama
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. -- Mary Oliver
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink. -- Dorothy Parker
Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. -- Annie Lennox
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things. -- Stacy Aumonier
When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing. -- Penn Jillette
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. -- T. S. Eliot
Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive. -- C.J. Redwine
Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right." -- Max Stirner
When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man. -- Arthur Miller
I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing. -- Barack Obama
Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper. -- Diogenes Laertius
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What did you do?" "Well, you see, there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there"¦" He trailed off. "Useful thing, tea," commented Lyall thoughtfully. -- Gail Carriger

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