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The world forgets about people who are not useful. -- Alain Ducasse
We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. -- Mitchell Baker
Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people. -- Drew Houston
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. -- Karl Marx
There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose. -- Kevin Spacey
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. -- Henri Poincare
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people. -- Zak Orth
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. -- Antony Gormley
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. -- Joseph Joubert
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
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. -- Jean de la Bruyere
To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending. -- John Darnielle
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off. -- Matthew Macfadyen
By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for. -- James Hillman
If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right? -- Paige Craig
I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world. -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself. -- Beth Ditto
I like to be useful to people. -- Miuccia Prada
Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful. -- Timothy Keller
Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it. -- Jay Baer
At times people in the press were also useful to me. -- Garry Winogrand
Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources. -- Santosh Kalwar
You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL! -- Laura Fitton
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. -- John Barnes
The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people. -- Frank Zappa
Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. -- Mark Rippetoe
Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful. -- Patricia Briggs
You want to do things you're passionate about but also are useful to other people. -- Elon Musk
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit. -- James W. Loewen
People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world. -- Natalie Babbitt
Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most. -- Edward Abbey
Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work. -- Max McKeown
I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again. -- Steve Hamilton
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. -- Seneca the Younger
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function. -- Claude Lelouch
The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful. -- Ian Bogost
Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so its probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people. -- Zak Orth
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. -- George Mikes
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not. -- Rafael Nadal
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. -- W. Averell Harriman
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people. -- Sergey Brin
I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things. -- Deanna Raybourn
Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive. -- Denise Scott Brown
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ... -- Ada Leverson
Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it. -- Edward Albee
Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own. -- Bruce Lee
I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours. -- John Darnielle
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy. -- Edith Cavell
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I don't think vodka is useful. I think it's for people who don't like alcohol, in which case, you probably shouldn't be drinking it. -- Rachel Maddow
Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it. -- Travis Morrison
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever. -- John Baldessari
One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts. -- Paulo Coelho
Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can be useful. -- Dorothy H Cohen
People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work. -- Aaron Klug
Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them. -- Kameron Hurley
Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality. -- Adam Grant
People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful. -- Gore Vidal
[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor. -- Indira Gandhi
By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful -- Kim Do-Jin
If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position -- Shri Radhe Maa
When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful. -- Alice Walker
Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful. -- David Filo
Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done. -- Joel Spolsky
People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society. -- Liberace
Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow. -- Octavia Butler
The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows. -- Akiva Goldsman
I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people. -- Hayao Miyazaki
I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger. -- Alan Alda
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
People will urge you to go to school. Theyâ??ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80â??s. You are here to hustle. -- E. C. Osondu

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